Garret Graves: “We want to commend U.S. Representatives Sharice Davids and Garret Graves for introducing H.R. 1339”

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

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).

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.

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