Garret Graves: “5 years is just an unacceptable timeline you are having that kind of money in the bank.”

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.

The reason that we purchased Alaska was largely the geography, as well as the natural resources, and the abundance of that State is profound and just critically important.

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

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).