Doug LaMalfa: “So, it's a lot of laughs, when we talk about having to raise something and take that back to my home State.”

I hope to work with her some more on that.

I am here today to express Delta's strong support for the HEN ACT and to thank Congresswoman Fischbach, Congressman LaMalfa, and Congressman Thompson for their leadership on this critical piece of legislation.

But it shouldn't require you having to come hat in hand to this place and ask a Congress Member to run a bill so you can purchase a piece of land that might be surplus already to the government.

So, Madam Chairwoman, from the doldrums of less than 1,000, the American Bison has rebounded so far to around 250,000 today.