Dan Benishek: “It's been very frustrating to me to hear the people from the VA say, 'yes, well, we understand and we're working on it.'”

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.

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.

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