Garret Graves: “I agree with you. And it is something we have been battling to try to address now for many years.”

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.

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.

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