G. K. Butterfield

This is a very healthy discussion. I hope we have a lot of listeners and viewers, because this is a conversation that we must have.

the Voting Rights Act is not fully enforceable now. It has been wounded, and your party refuses to fix it.

I hope that I am here long enough to see the day that you will have full voting rights in the Congress of the United States.

I send to the desk a concurrent resolution and ask unanimous consent for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the title of the concurrent resolution. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from…

May I inquire how much time each side has remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from North Carolina has 13\1/ 2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Illinois has 21 minutes remaining.

Let me thank the gentleman from Illinois. I am just delighted that he mentioned that his home State, the State of Illinois, was, in fact, the home of Abraham Lincoln. I am a student of history and love to read that portion of our history…

We do not need 500 people on the floor at one time. We don't need 50 people on the floor at one time.

I suggest today that Democrats are engaged in what I would like to call strategic planning.

I share the views of all of you that we must pay more attention to the needs of Indian country and I will certainly do my part.

Competition is valuable.

We are in the middle now of a societal reckoning right here in our country, something that is long overdue.

I thank Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton for her years of leadership on this issue. Mr. Speaker, from 1910 through 1970, thousands of African Americans from my district, and from your district, Mr. Hice, migrated to Washington, D.C., seeking…

The ability for virtually anyone to post thoughts and pictures and videos to social media has shed many of the systemic injustices and disparities that exist both in our country and around the world.

Further, in the midst of a pandemic that disproportionately impacts communities of color, falsehoods have been spread from all--from our own president about the virus's treatment and testing and origins, deepening already existing divides…

It is now well-established that in 2016 foreign actors targeted the African-American community by way of social media in efforts to keep African Americans from voting in the presidential election.

It seems to me that the President seems to think that COVID is over and he can just push it all to the states.

In response to COVID-19, Congress has appropriated significant funding through the CARES Act.

The data that is coming out of the states shows the necessity, the absolute necessity for a national strategy.

The Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust, led by Congresswoman Robin Kelly, has met with some or all of you.

Before I sign off, would you let the record show that on the Democratic side of the aisle, Mr. Veasey and I stayed with you till the end.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for convening this hearing today.

I think our charge is to make sure that every voter has the absolute right to vote.

I am a D.C. politician. I am an elected official of 750,000 people.

I am just so disappointed that many of our Republican colleagues just cannot embrace a vote-by-mail idea.

But that is our legislation, to provide 100 percent of the cost of the November election for every State in the country.