Garret Graves: “Job creation, creating jobs here in America, reducing emissions, charting a path of an America-based resource, clean…”

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

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.

In closing, naming the House Press Gallery after Frederick Douglass is going to honor his commitment to the free press, his legacy, and his work reporting on the official business of Congress. I urge support of House Resolution 137, and I…