M. Caldwell Butler. A strangely evocative name. Sounds like the name of a Civil War general, CSA. Summons echoes of cavalry hoofbeats in the Shenandoah Valley. Mr. Butler, 49 (AB, University of Richmond, Phi Beta Kappa; LLB, University of Virginia Law School; member and former vestryman, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Roanoke) is the congressman from the Sixth District of Virginia, which rubs up against West Virginia. Mr. Butler’s presence in the House of Representatives is a source of deep and constant pain to Americans for Democratic Action, the liberal lobby. ADA rates the voting records of congressmen, awarding a score of 100 for absolute fidelity to the ADA’s standards of liberalism, and running down the scale to zero for what the ADA considers invincible conservative ignorance. Mr. Butler’s ADA rating in the 93rd Congress was unambiguous. Zero.
Speaking in the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment proceedings, Mr. Butler said this:
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