Derrick Van Orden: “When they wanted to have the changes in the wotus, the…”

“I represent the third Congressional district of the state of Wisconsin, which is agrarian, and the USDA and the EPA have gotten so far out of hand, it's actually preventing our ability to feed the world. I'd like to give you an example. When they wanted to have the changes in the wotus, the waters of the United States, they would have made essentially intermittent streams and puddles that form in parking lots, navigable waterways. And what that would do to us is it would make our farmers get rid of what are called retention ponds that collect runoff from agricultural waste. And it would.” (00:16–00:29)

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