Garret Graves: “We are spending unbelievable amounts of money and we are not seeing a requisite return on investment.”

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…

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 think that is fair, and I think they deserve it.

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