Garret Graves: “The performance I've seen here is one of the worst, unfortunately, one of the worst I've ever seen.”

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 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).

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