Garret Graves: “We didn't change the law for fun. We did it because we don't agree with what the Corps has been doing.”

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

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 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).

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