Garret Graves: “In my home State of Louisiana, we have lost 2,000 square miles of our coast, 2,000.”

I don't have any more speakers, I am prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my time.

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.

I want to publicly thank Representative Hoyle for her work on the bill. It is a great bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Ezell).

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