Washington Senator Patty Murray has included a number of local projects in her Congressionally-directed spending requests for the upcoming fiscal year.  Among them, $2.5 million for Columbia Cascade Housing Corporation to help leverage state and local resources for the construction of a 52 unit assisted living facility in western Klickitat County.  Also on the list:  $2.5 million for Klickitat Valley Health in Goldendale to modernize its central utility plant, $200,000 for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to study construction of tribal housing in the John Day Pool, and $100,000 to the Corps to study tribal housing in the Bonneville Pool.  She also joined with fellow Washington Senator Maria Cantwell and Oregon’s Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley requesting $1.2 million for the Corps of Engineers to identify a suitable location to build a tribal village near The Dalles Lock and Dam.  The Senate Appropriations Committee, on which Murray is the second-ranking Democrat, will make the funding decisions, with a total cap of about $1.5 billion.