Garret Graves: “Congress should not attempt to reorganize a system from scratch.”

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).

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.

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

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…