The Dalles Community Action Team will make its semi-annual trip to Washington, D.C. in March to pitch federal officials on local projects. Port of The Dalles Executive Director Andrea Klaas says one of their tasks this time around will be talking with the offices of new Gorge representatives like Oregon’s Earl Blumenauer and Washington’s Dan Newhouse and Marie Glusenkamp Perez. Klaas says child care needs will be one of the issues they discuss with federal officials, along with agricultural technology, funding requests for acquiring more industrial land and a new youth sports complex, and rural broadband needs.