Garret Graves: “If we can get ahead of the problem and make proactive investments like in the hurricane protection system--”

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.

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).

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.