Steve Southerland: “But until you invite those CEOs, this is not a serious investigation at all.”

I have seen firsthand the devastating impact of reduced downstream flows on this community's ecosystem, environment, and economy.

I mean I look at when you have had 50 percent reduction in water flows, it is having a--you did allude to the oyster industry down in Apalachicola. That is the heart of my district.

I also want to remind my colleagues that no one was a greater champion of my amendment than former Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank. He is definitely a stalwart in New England fisheries. So though he is not here, his spirit in favor…

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