G. K. Butterfield

Thank you very much, Mr. Doyle, for yielding time this morning.

So, you can imagine my surprise when I learned that the committee had extended an invitation to one of my constituents from the town of Pinetops, North Carolina, population 1300, to serve as a witness for today's hearing on rural broadband.

Certain services that consumers feel they must take part in because an employer requires it.

All three of you agree 5G is the future?

It's no question that affluent developed communities have broadband. Low income rural communities, many of them, do not.

I will continue to oppose any modifications to the process that would give priority of our public waterways to industry, over and above the rights and interests of Native Tribes, farmers, fishermen, boaters, and other stakeholders who also…

I thank Mr. Pallone for his friendship and leadership on the committee. He has been an extraordinary leader in the healthcare space, and I want to publicly thank the gentleman for his work. As well as to Dr. Burgess: I have been on the…

We need to be the convinced that this new Center has a robust system to investigate and stop bad actors.

I have concerns about whether SafeSport has sufficient resources and whether it truly has the independence it needs.

41 million Americans and over 1 million North Carolinians' ability to put food on the table hangs in the balance this week, as House Republicans push to pass their farm bill with over $23 billion in cuts to the SNAP program. These cuts…

it became pretty clear to me how difficult securing our supply chain will be.

The nonpartisan GAO office has now validated those employees finding that you broke the law.

This is unacceptable.

One of the most alarming aspects that I have heard concerns your expenditures. I am going to call them your outlandish expenditures on security.

According to press accounts, five EPA staff members were fired or reassigned after questioning your spending.

Were you aware of these severe worker impacts when you proposed weakening the coal ash rule?

CEO leadership on issues of diversity is the only way that the technology industry will change.

In my opinion, this is cyberbullying.

How does Facebook's self-reporting policy work to prevent misuse?

We must do better than we have done.

Can we get that data? That is the starting point.

You need more African-American inclusion on your board of directors.

We can do better than that, Mr. Zuckerberg. We certainly can.

In my opinion, Facebook is here to stay, and so you have an obligation to protect the data that you collect and the data that you use.

Well, considering the strong congressional and bipartisan support for this program, I would ask that you really take a serious look at reauthorizing and funding this program.