Garret Graves: “We amended the organic statute. We amended it to raise the threshold under which NEPA projects apply.”

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).

Closed primaries, they 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.

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