Garret Graves: “You can never explain, justify those types of schedules to any taxpayer and we shouldn't ever have to.”

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

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…

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