Dan Benishek: “We owe you a great debt that we still remain a free country.”

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.

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.

A species should not be delisted until it is recovered.