G. K. Butterfield: “Let me thank you, Chairwoman Marcia Fudge, for your friendship, and thank you for your leadership.”

The State supreme court ruled that the congressional map was an extreme, intentional partisan gerrymander and directed legislature to fix it.

Now the Supreme Court is going to have to decide whether or not State courts have any authority whatsoever over election laws within the State.

Let me say thank you to our colleague, and fellow Member of the Committee on House Administration, my friend Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon of the Fifth District.

I thank Mrs. Dingell and the ranking member for their courtesy, and I also thank the Natural Resources Committee for all the work they do. I am not on that committee, but I have great respect and admiration for the committee and its…