Garret Graves: “To date, the Subcommittee has provided approximately $1.7 billion to the State of Louisiana and community development…”

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.

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

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