Garret Graves: “Is that because the offshore energy production does not affect our coast?”

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

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

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.

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