G. K. Butterfield

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

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

I thank Chairman Neal for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise to thank and commend my colleagues for their work on this $480 billion legislation. On April 7, as the Speaker said, Republicans wanted $250 billion, but no more. After Democratic…

I recently co-sponsored a bipartisan bill with Congressman Soto called the Enhanced Access to Support Essential, or EASE for short, Act.

The Supreme Court has chosen to consider a case that will reevaluate settled law and, once again, throw into the question nearly 50 years of precedent.

I fear that the court's decision to hear this case less than four years after its decision has ramifications not just for abortion access but for the impartiality of the entire court system.

Roe v. Wade seems to be the guiding star. That is the law of the land and that is what is guiding me in my thinking.

It will divide this country more than anything that we have seen in recent years and I don't want to see that happen.

I am disturbed by the implications of injecting ideology and distrust into our legal process.

I support it and will work very hard for its passage.

The Congress--the Congress--shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

For the life of me--for the life of me--I just cannot understand why 14 States have flatly refused to expand their Medicaid program to provide healthcare to their low- income, healthy, childless adults, a demographic that was omitted from…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me the time and for her leadership and willingness to give time on this very important bill. I thank my colleagues, Congressman Greg Murphy and Congressman Mark Meadows, for advancing this bill. I…

To achieve this, last week, along with Congressman Billy Long, we introduced H.R. 5718, the Protecting Natural Gas Consumers from Overcharges Act.

The bill that Congressman Long and I introduced gives natural gas customers the same rate protections that electric customers currently have under the FPA.

Thank you very much for your willingness to put this up for a hearing today.

Congress can promote media diversity by passing Representative Butterfield's Expanded Broadcast Ownership Opportunities Act.

The historical roots of discrimination in broadcasting actually started decades ago.

The bill would reinstate and expand the Tax Certificate Program at the FCC and increase the Commission's ownership reporting requirements.

We completely support Congressman Butterfield's bill to bring the tax certificate back.

It is time for Congress, and I hope in a bipartisan manner, to do its part to ensure that women and minorities have equal access to the ownership market.

The ownership structure that some of the African American broadcasters enjoy doesn't just turn on vagaries of how long the license lasts.

We fully support the bills introduced by Congressmembers Clarke and Long.

Do your tabulators have wireless modems capacity?

Thank you, Chairperson Lofgren, for convening this very important hearing today.