G. K. Butterfield: “I stand ready to work with each of you, Madam Chair, and our colleagues and witnesses to curtail prescription drug abuse…”

May I inquire about how much time each side has remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Clark of Massachusetts). The gentleman from North Carolina has 6\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Illinois has 2\1/4\ minutes remaining.

The Voting Rights Act has transformed American politics and we are on a good trajectory.

Let me also just say to my colleagues that I had every intention of being with you today.

I had spent thirty years in a courtroom before coming to Congress, and, you know, in a courtroom, the rules are so much different than the rules for ethics for Members of Congress.