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John Garamendi: “I would recommend that we build into it incentives and specificity that this be taken into account.”

On the recordNovember 18, 2019
I would recommend that we build into it incentives and specificity that this be taken into account.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Garamendi suggests including incentives in new legislation for levee repairs.

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