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On the recordFebruary 6, 2012
The Bureau of Reclamation has built over 600 dams and reservoirs in the last century, but two-thirds of them were built in the first 60 years of its existence.
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

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McClintock highlights the decline in dam construction by the Bureau of Reclamation.

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