Dan Benishek: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I really appreciate the time to introduce this bill. And thank you for holding the hearing.”

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

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.

The way this is being done is a disaster.

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