Garret Graves: “This hearing touches on a topic that this subcommittee and quite honestly most airline passengers seldom consider.”

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

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

Congresswoman Peltola has been a big advocate and supporter in educating the committee and following in the footsteps of Congressman Don Young in advocating for that State.

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.