Garret Graves: “It wouldn't have been possible, though, without your help and the President's help and certainly the contractors.”

Madam Speaker, today and every day the brave men and women of the United States Coast Guard carry out a critical mission: securing our borders, patrolling our waters, and saving American lives. As vice chair of the Coast Guard and Maritime…

I don't have any more speakers, I am prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my time.

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.

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