Garret Graves: “Recognizing that I have the right to close, I continue to 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.

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

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

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.