G. K. Butterfield: “A republic, if you can keep it.”

The ability to cast a ballot free of undue burden and discrimination is the cornerstone of our participatory democracy.

I thank Mrs. Dingell and the ranking member for their courtesy, and I also thank the Natural Resources Committee for all the work they do. I am not on that committee, but I have great respect and admiration for the committee and its…

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.

Section 2 has been very effective down through the years, and those of you who have been involved in litigation, you know what I mean.