G. K. Butterfield

I support the administration and strongly believe that in order to provide companies and consumers with legal certainty, we need to enact a comprehensive, flexible and balanced Federal consumer privacy law.

I feel strongly a national baseline privacy law is the best way to ensure consumers have basic common sense and permanent rights over the collection and use of their information.

The administration's privacy report advances a framework that includes the development and implementation of industry codes of conduct in parallel with Congress working on and passing baseline privacy legislation.

Consumer choice about when and whether to disclose information can often make an illusion.

Without objection. And I would like to be recognized for a similar request.

The Republican budget cuts at least $3.3 trillion from low-income programs over the next 10 years while it increases the defense budget. It reduces taxes to a level that will wreak havoc on the Federal Treasury. The rate of poverty is at…

The compromise that the consumer groups and the families of the victims had with the--in the Senate bill were very reasonable.

Over the past several months, we have seen Republicans wage war on women's health. Nowhere can the Republican zeal for limiting women's access to affordable quality health care be seen more clearly than in their attempt to dismantle the…

In 2009, NHTSA issued a Motorcoach Safety Action Plan. I am sure you are familiar with that, building off of NTSB recommendations, the plans set rulemaking priorities for crash avoidance, seatbelts, fire safety, emergency egress, and…

Thank you, Mr. Lewis, for your very powerful statement. I think it speaks volumes and clearly explains the issue that we have to deal with.

Motorcoach ridership is up, and yet motorcoaches are not being held to the same safety standards as passenger vehicles.

Let me thank you, Madam Chairman.

The National Transportation Safety Board for 40 years has been telling both the Department of Transportation and the bus industry to improve their bus safety, and very, very little has ever happened.

Today, I rise to congratulate Cassius S. Williams, a dear friend, who is the recipient of North Carolina State University's Watauga Medal Award. Each year, NC State honors alumni for outstanding contributions to the university by bestowing…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and to the Ranking Member, colleagues, thank you very much for letting me come by today and give you some information about a bill that I recently introduced.

H.R. 3483, the Veterans' Education Equity Act, addresses this problem by granting veterans equal benefits to attend any public or private institution.

Current law caps education benefits for veterans attending private institutions at $17,500 per year.

By providing up to $17,500 for all veterans regardless of the institution they opt to attend, this measure remedies this issue.

We owe our veterans every opportunity to get a quality education and enter the workforce with the tools needed to compete.

These returning heroes face an inequity that forces those who attend public colleges to pay more out of pocket in tuition than veterans who attend private schools.

This inequity has caused many veterans to drop out of college, transfer, or assume tremendous financial burdens to attend school.

That is unfair, Mr. Chairman.

Let's treat all of our veterans fairly by passing the Veterans Education Equity Act out of this Committee and helping it become law.

Due to the leadership of North Carolina Congressman G.K. Butterfield, H.R. 3483 will allow the affected veteran population to receive the greater of (1) actual net costs for in-state tuition or (2) $17,500 for the academic year beginning…

Thank you for holding this hearing and providing me the opportunity to present testimony in support of H.R. 3483, the Veterans Education Equity Act of 2011, introduced by the Honorable G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina.