G. K. Butterfield: “I am beginning to understand that it could provide a great boost to our national economy and it could provide a boost…”

Thank you, Congresswoman Scanlon.

We took the case into Federal court, and the lower Federal courts ruled in our favor and ruled that the State legislature engaged in partisan gerrymandering and that it was a violation of the Federal Constitution.

The House is honored today to welcome a great theologian and humanitarian, my friend and constituent, the distinguished William J. Barber, II. I have known Bishop Barber since he was a college student. A native of Roper, North Carolina…

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