Dan Benishek: “I understand your thoughts, but specifically how are you going to get the VA to be assured that they are going to be…”

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.

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

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