Garret Graves: “How are we going to move in a direction of resiliency when we made so much progress last year with the Disaster Recovery…”

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

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

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).

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.