Garret Graves: “South Louisiana has lost 2,000 square miles, and it is really extraordinary, and it is losing communities, it is losing…”

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.

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.

All of these groups are supporting this bill and urging a ``no'' vote on the other bill, H.R. 5342.