Garret Graves: “But I guess it's really difficult for me to understand how to reconcile the two things, that we are the most impacted…”

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.

All of these groups are supporting this bill and urging a ``no'' vote on the other bill, H.R. 5342.

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