G. K. Butterfield

I stand ready to work with each of you, Madam Chair, and our colleagues and witnesses to curtail prescription drug abuse in the United States of America.

I don't get the sense for 1 minute that any of you are not sensitive to what we are talking about today.

As the National Drug Control Strategy points out, tribal communities have been particularly hard hit by unemployment and combined with problems accessing healthcare, education, and other services, tribal communities can be…

We need to provide greater support for rehabilitation initiatives so those who are addicted to prescription drugs have access to the help they medically need.

It is unconscionable that since 1990, the deaths resulting from an overdose of prescription drugs have risen.

Prescription drug diversion is an ever-growing problem in our country.

In a perfect world the answer to this problem is personal responsibility, but in the real world it is clear the Federal Government does have a defined role to play.

I think we are on the right path with this with what I believe is a very balanced way and a very comprehensive way of looking at this.

Efforts in one state may yield declines in the number of pills dispensed, hospitalizations, or deaths, any of which are very commendable achievements within that state's border, but how can we be sure that addicted individuals simply don't…

The regulation of medicine is done at the state level. It is not done at the Federal level, and we have to provide the training, the technical assistance, the start-up money for the computer systems, and the assistance to law enforcement.

The further down the supply chain a particular drug travels the greater are the opportunities for diversion.

On behalf of the more than two million men and women of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and our Auxiliaries, we thank you for introducing H.R. 3483, the Veterans Education Equity Act of 2011.

We are at a crossroad in America where we must decide if we're going to continue building economic recovery on the backs of middle- and low-income families, or whether we're going to ask wealthy Americans to join in the sacrifice by paying…

Today, family and friends will gather to celebrate the 100th birthday of Lottie Harris Rollins Dunston, a wonderful human being who has lived in Wake County, North Carolina, her entire life. ``Grandlottie,'' as she is affectionately…

I am encouraged by the President's 2013 budget proposal which includes $8 billion for community colleges.

There is no more important issue to working Americans than the ability to get and keep a job, provide for their families, and ensure that when their children grow up, they can succeed, too.

However, it is misleading to suggest that regulatory uncertainty has anywhere near the same importance in explaining unemployment as the massive affect of this recession an aggregate demands.

Thank you very much for coming back and thank you for your willingness to tackle this incredibly important issue.

Let me thank the gentleman for yielding this brief time for me to respond. Mr. Speaker, I want to join my friend from Georgia, Mr. David Scott, in trying to expose some of the hypocrisy that we are seeing playing out here on the House…

I want to bring attention to a silent epidemic growing in our midst. Right alongside long-term unemployment, the increases in poverty and food prices, homelessness and the steep decline in household incomes is now the shocking rate of food…

The bill requires the relevant State agencies to, quote, ensure to a reasonable degree of certainty that the individual placing a bet or wager is not less than 21 years of age, end of quote.

Thank you. I thank the chairman for holding this hearing and what I hope will be a series of hearings on this very important subject of Internet gambling.

There are millions and millions, tens of millions of Americans gambling online now after we passed a bill supposedly banning it.

I am going to ask unanimous consent to have this letter dated November 18th, 2011, included in the record.

Mr. Franks' bill and Mr. Campbell, 1174, gives the Treasury Secretary broad regulatory and enforcement authority to implement a licensing program for Internet gambling sites.