Dan Benishek: “I tend to agree with you on the advanced funding issue. Frankly, I don't see why we don't have 2-year budgeting for…”

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

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.

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

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