Garret Graves: “Unfortunately if you don't give time-sensitive funding to these projects, many of them will just slip by the wayside.”

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.

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.