G. K. Butterfield: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and to the Ranking Member, colleagues, thank you very much for letting me come by today and…”

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…

I have a motion at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the motion. The text of the motion is as follows: Mr. Butterfield of North Carolina moves that the House concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 5746 with an…

Where we diverge is how to preserve the program for those in actual need without regulatory loopholes and fuzzy interpretations of the law, both of which exploit the very intent of the program.

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