Garret Graves: “These people have overcome obstacles their entire lives, and all that's going to happen is that we are going to cede our…”

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.

I don't have any more speakers, I am prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my time.

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