Garret Graves: “Congresswoman Peltola has been a big advocate and supporter in educating the committee and following in the footsteps of…”

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.

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.