[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 194 (Wednesday, December 14, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H9736-H9737]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     RECOGNIZING REPRESENTATIVES G. K. BUTTERFIELD AND DAVID PRICE

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
North Carolina (Ms. Adams) for 5 minutes.
  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.

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  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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