Garret Graves: “Does it make sense to put the country through the economic devastation that these policies would create instead of…”

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).

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.

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

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