G. K. Butterfield

There are 10 million U.S. citizens eligible to vote who do not speak English well.

These burdens fall disproportionately on Black, Latino, and immigrant communities.

Black, Latino, and immigrant communities are statistically less likely to have a valid ID for purposes of voting as compared to White, non-Hispanic populations.

There is no widespread threat of voter fraud in our elections.

We should not erect more barriers for just some citizens. Americans who are eligible to vote should be able to register and cast their ballot without undue obstacles and burdens.

It was Mr. Sensenbrenner and President Bush and others who embraced the 2006 reauthorization.

These laws do, in fact, pose a disproportionate, negative, strong, consistent depreciation of minority votes.

It has been demonstrated time and time again that voter ID laws disproportionately impact racial minorities.

It was supported and demanded, actually, by President Lyndon B. Johnson at the time, right after the Selma to Montgomery massacre.

I remember it so very well. I had just finished high school a few weeks before the VRA was passed.

Thank you, Ms. Roman, for your testimony.

We must do that. We should be making it easier for all citizens to vote, not leaving State and local governments with unchecked authority to enact legislation that imposes discriminatory barriers to the ballot.

In my State of North Carolina, a Federal court found that our voter ID law in particular targeted African-American voters with almost surgical precision.

Secretary Granholm is leading our country, she is leading the Department in the right direction.

I introduced H.R. 1730, the Speeding Therapy Access Today, or the STAT Act, with my Rare Disease Caucus cochair and good friend, G.K. Butterfield.

For decades, publicly funded research has laid the foundation for the treatments and cures patients use today.

My priority would be for us to work to find ways to really improve the confidence in our elections by working to appropriately clean up the lists.

I am concerned that, when it comes to electric vehicle charging, rural communities may again be left behind.

Equity must be part of our approach to electric vehicles.

95 percent of rare diseases will not have a treatment. Colleagues, let's redouble our efforts.

Over 95 percent of rare diseases do not have any treatment at all.

It isn't right that someone in our country should have to choose between food and medicine.

I could guarantee passage if my Republican friends would just work with us, not just throw one-liners at us but just work with us.

Thank you for your leadership. It has been nothing less than stellar.

The Congressional Black Caucus has said to you over and over again we need greater diversity among your workforce from the top to the bottom, and we need for you to publish the data so the world can see it.