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On the recordJuly 28, 2015
How do you justify such a policy? ... putting the needs of 29 steelhead trout over the needs of 300,000 human beings in the worst drought in the recorded history of the state?
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

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McClintock questions prioritizing fish over human water needs during a drought.

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