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Tom McClintock: “My previous district included the Klamath River. When I was first invited up there to take a look at it, the…”

On the recordSeptember 10, 2013
My previous district included the Klamath River. When I was first invited up there to take a look at it, the Administration is pushing to tear down four perfectly good hydroelectric dams because of what they describe as a catastrophic decline of the salmon population on the Klamath.
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

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McClintock discusses the impact of dam removal on salmon populations.

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