G. K. Butterfield: “This is a very important proceeding here today.”

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…

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.

Section 5 has been very meaningful and has meant a lot to the political progress the minority groups have made across the country.

We want to minimize opportunities for misinformation, and we want to minimize opportunities to overturn an election.