Dan Benishek: “This action is quite worrisome due to the precedent it sets.”

Dan Benishek, at the time a Republican House Representative, approved; and both of our Democratic Senators, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow, approved the project.

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.

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.

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