John Yarmuth: “This is a great step backwards, as are your cuts in student financial assistance. I hope you will reconsider those.”

You misspoke. You said tax rates instead of interest rates.

If every life were truly sacred in this country, we wouldn't be having a hearing about programs to keep mothers and their children healthy, fed, and cared for, we would be fully funding them.

I think that the American Rescue Plan did a lot to push against the spike in hardship that we would have seen that would have disproportionately fallen on communities of color that have for centuries faced systemic racism.

Given the current rate of inflation, the idea we ought to pile more money into the system is an almost suicidal act of hubris.