Garret Graves: “I would rather if you didn't say 'continue to' because I feel like it hasn't been dealt with the urgency that it needs…”

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…

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.

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

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