Garret Graves: “We are also the top fisheries producer, in terms of commercial fisheries in the continental United States.”

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).

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

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