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On the recordFebruary 29, 2016
You shut down pumps, cost us a half-million acre-feet of water because one Delta smelt was caught in the pumps, and you don't call that Draconian?
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

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McClintock criticizes water conservation measures affecting local water supply.

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