Garret Graves: “This bill will actually help, because what it does is it forces earlier interaction.”

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.

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

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

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