Recognizing Representatives G. K. Butterfield and David Price
Floor Speech
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Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor two outstanding North Carolinians and my colleagues retiring from the U.S. House of Representatives, the Honorable G. K. Butterfield for 18 years of service and the Honorable David Price for 34 years. These gentlemen have given a total of 52 years of service to our State and Nation for which we are indeed grateful.
True statesmen, Representatives Butterfield and Price have been invaluable Members of Congress and they have served with incredible distinction. They are well-respected, admired, loved by colleagues here in Congress, and revered by citizens back home. They each have made their life's work all about service.
Having known each of them for a very long time, I have appreciated the opportunity to learn from them and to work with each of them in North Carolina and here in Congress. Service has been their legacy as it is the rent we pay for living on this Earth.
Together, these incredible Members have kept their rent fully paid up throughout their careers and in North Carolina and in this Congress.
Both scholars and men of enormous intellect, Price and Butterfield have been leaders in their communities, and they have used their expertise on and off Capitol Hill to interrupt injustice and ignorance.
Our resident historian, G. K. Butterfield, who served on the Energy and Commerce Committee, worked as a civil rights lawyer, a trial judge, a superior court judge, and served in the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Retired teacher and distinguished professor, David Price, led numerous congressional missions abroad during his three decades on the Hill, and he has been influential in his committee work on the Appropriations Committee.
Both have been personal mentors and friends to me, and impactful advisers who I will truly miss.
I thank Congressman Price and Congressman Butterfield for their friendship and for their service. I wish them and their families Godspeed as they retire and take on the next chapter in their lives.
God bless you. Please know that our Nation is much better off, and you have certainly made it much better than you found it. God bless you.
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