G. K. Butterfield

My constituents... overwhelmingly support our new Governor in North Carolina who is doing all that he can to expand Medicaid.

This appears to be another hearing to discuss Republican plans to change the healthcare system and reduce people's access to care and to make health care more expensive.

Every day I hear from constituents about increasing access to health care, not decreasing it.

I ask that President Trump rescind his refugee ban on children like the 12-year-old Yemeni girl, Eman Ali, who was not allowed to board a plane to join her U.S. parents, leaving her in limbo. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman's time…

Republican policies to cap or turn the program into a block grant would result in the rug being pulled out from under millions of children, elderly, individuals with disabilities, and low-income working adults.

It is undeniable that Medicaid coverage pays us back as a society tenfold and that is why improving and strengthening Medicaid for generations to come continues to be one of our primary goals.

I think a start of a good hearing. So we will go from here and to see what we can do.

The Republican strategy to strengthen Medicaid is to remove or exclude certain people from the program and then apply those resources to another person and this is a meaningless approach to resource management.

Let me begin, Mr. Speaker, by thanking the gentlewoman so very much for yielding time tonight. I thank the gentlewoman for her friendship. Most of all, I thank the gentlewoman for her extraordinary leadership here in the Congress. I have…

Let me begin this evening by thanking Mr. Carson for yielding time, and thanking him for his extraordinary leadership not only on his committee, but for the great work that he does here in Congress. He is a leader of leaders, and I thank…

We should instead be using this time to build the law's successes by improving quality affordable care now available to our constituents.

I too want to thank you, Chairman Pitts, for holding this important hearing on reauthorizing important programs to combat the sickle cell disease and on improving diabetes awareness and care.

That black children, African American children, have higher rates of disease.

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that the median age for men with SCD is only 42 years old. For women, it is 48 years.

Sickle cell disease and diabetes disproportionately affect African American citizens, including many in my congressional district in North Carolina.

This is a subject that we all care so deeply about and I know our five witnesses today feel very strongly about this issue.

I thank Congresswoman Beatty for yielding to me this evening. This is such a sad evening for all of us because of the events in Orlando. I thank her so very much for having the strength to come to the floor tonight to manage the important…

Yesterday, Riverside High School in Durham, North Carolina, held its graduation ceremony. Among the pomp and circumstance, one student who should have graduated with his class was, sadly, absent. Wildin Acosta is a Honduran national who…

It is utterly disappointing that Donald J. Trump chose to use the court of public opinion in his attempt to defend against a civil fraud claim involving Trump University. Last week, Donald Trump made disparaging statements about the trial…

I thank the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Yarmuth) for yielding this evening. I am absolutely embarrassed to come after my friend, Congressman Greg Meeks. Why in the world would the gentleman put me on the schedule to come to the podium at…

I think that would help, you know, especially as we are reviewing on our side, we know how the money is being spent and why.

I thank the gentleman for yielding time this evening, and I thank him for his incredible work not just in the Congressional Black Caucus, but on behalf of the people that he represents in that great borough of Brooklyn, New York. And I…

I thank Congresswoman Beatty for yielding, thank her for her friendship, and thank her for all that she does not just for the Congressional Black Caucus, but for all that she does for the constituents that she represents back in Ohio and…

As one trauma surgeon said to me, it's not a life saved; it's a lifetime saved.

It is bipartisan legislation like this that makes me proud to be a Member of the United States Congress. I want to thank each one of my colleagues for his role in making this day happen. I thank Jason's family. I am not going to single…