G. K. Butterfield: “Sickle cell disease and diabetes disproportionately affect African American citizens, including many in my congressional…”

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

In closing, let me thank the gentlewoman from Michigan for supporting this amendment. It is a very simple amendment. It is a very commonsense amendment. It will allow and authorize nonprofit organizations, as Mrs. Dingell said, to compete…

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.

What was struck down was Section 4, which is the formula that decides which States, which counties, which cities are included in Section 5.