Garret Graves: “Many of our issues are with redundant permissions.”

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).

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

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.