G. K. Butterfield: “I don't get the sense for 1 minute that any of you are not sensitive to what we are talking about today.”

I would ask my friend from North Carolina to refer to the bill section that refers to voter ID. It simply says this bill sets uniform national standards for States that choose to require identification to vote. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1…

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.

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

more people, everybody with legal access to voting and we must stop the undermining of our confidence in elections.