Dan Benishek, at the time a Republican House Representative, approved; and both of our Democratic Senators, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow, approved the project.

Congress wrote the Clean Water Act specifically to allow States to assume Clean Water Act section 404 permitting authority in place of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the EPA.

A species should not be delisted until it is recovered.

I have to, unfortunately, contradict my colleague from Michigan, Mrs. Dingell, in that, in your opening statement, you mentioned that hunting deer in Michigan has not suffered under the wolf.

wolf predation was the reason the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has allowed for fewer opportunities to hunt antlerless deer

There should be a long-term management of this with a regular board, just like proposed for the VA.

I just find it very disconcerting to even hear that this stuff is going on.

The way this is being done is a disaster.

I want to thank Mrs. Noem for bringing this to my attention. I, frankly, was not aware of the severity of the problem.

Frankly, Mrs. Noem was right, this sounds very much like the VA, you know, government-run healthcare. Sometimes it does not work.

We need sincere people to actually change the way things happen, and not come here to tell us how hard you are working.