G. K. Butterfield

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 81, line 3, after the first dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $2,000,000)''. Page 90, line 6…

I thank the gentlewoman for her passion and her leadership and her support for this amendment. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from North…

I think it's going to lead to good legislation which is ultimately going to protect every consumer in America.

We have competing interests here between small rural hospitals and the need to protect the consumer.

I have long championed this program.

You know, Mr. Chairman, we have been talking about infrastructure ever since I have been in Congress, but it seems that in the last couple of years we have really gotten serious about a serious and big and bold investment in infrastructure.

Are you saying that, in order for a convicted felon to register to vote, they must completely satisfy their monetary obligation to the court?

I don't fight for States' rights because whenever I hear States' rights, I think slavery.

That tells me there is racially polarized voting in that municipality, which means whites don't vote for African Americans, at election time.

America is great because Americans are good.

The Constitution says that every single citizen has the right to vote, an unfettered, unabridged, right to vote.

Section 5 was limited to several Southern States in their entirety.

I don't understand the public interest in purging an inactive voter.

Let me begin by thanking you, Chairwoman Fudge, for your leadership on this issue.

Which suggests to me, and you correct me if I am wrong, it suggests to me that the legislature counter has unfettered ability now to manipulate the maps, unlike they have been able to do in the past?

The default is not enfranchisement. The default is that you have to prove that you are eligible and deserve to vote.

Discrimination still exists. We must acknowledge this fact and do all we can to ensure that every American can exercise his or her right to vote.

In 2013, in the Shelby County case... we were dealt a severe blow by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Now, with seven congressional districts, it appears to me that, perhaps, Alabama may be entitled to pick up an extra majority minority district, if the lines are drawn appropriately and fairly.

This is building a Congressional record so that we can protect the right to vote in the United States of America.

The first thing the act did was to eliminate the literacy test.

Voting rights are fundamental to our democracy and must be protected for all citizens.

Let me finally ask you this. Let's take a bigger case.

But now the State of Alabama won't have to do that. So Alabama can just implement some maps. They can pack black voters into the 7th District or they can crack the black communities.

The Voting Rights Act was enacted several days after I finished high school in 1965. It was a very powerful piece of legislation.