Garret Graves: “We should never stop striving to further and further improve safety. I want to be clear on that.”

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…

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

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

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).