Dan Benishek: “I hope that the administration officials in the audience were listening as closely as I was to your testimony.”

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.

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

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

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