Dan Benishek: “At this time I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Shuster).”

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.

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

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