Garret Graves: “Mr. Slocum, I appreciate your answers, and I am glad that you went down to Cameron Parish.”

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

All of these groups are supporting this bill and urging a ``no'' vote on the other bill, H.R. 5342.

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.

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