Garret Graves: “But let's be clear. I don't want you to pull the Governor and his staff into this thing. This is not their decision.…”

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, he 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.

I think that is fair, and I think they deserve it.