Garret Graves: “I want to thank Ranking Member Titus' patience as I went a little overboard.”

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.

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

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