Garret Graves: “This legislation does not take away the right for judicial action. It doesn't. It absolutely does not.”

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

In closing, naming the House Press Gallery after Frederick Douglass is going to honor his commitment to the free press, his legacy, and his work reporting on the official business of Congress. I urge support of House Resolution 137, and I…

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.