Garret Graves: “Lastly, Mr. Speaker, I want to thank a number of people who were really instrumental in helping us to strike this…”

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.

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.