Dan Benishek: “I think the testimony of the first panel was compelling and heartwrenching.”

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

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.

Frankly, Mrs. Noem was right, this sounds very much like the VA, you know, government-run healthcare. Sometimes it does not work.

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.