Garret Graves: “What do you say to the folks in Louisiana? What do you say to them that we are draining water from all of these other…”

The Federal Government used to just throw billions and billions of dollars in the aftermath of a disaster and didn't pay appropriate attention, in my opinion, on the front end of what we can do to actually avert disasters.

Madam Speaker, today and every day the brave men and women of the United States Coast Guard carry out a critical mission: securing our borders, patrolling our waters, and saving American lives. As vice chair of the Coast Guard and Maritime…

All of these groups are supporting this bill and urging a ``no'' vote on the other bill, H.R. 5342.

Closed primaries, they said, distort democracy. They distort free markets.