John Yarmuth: “We started with only two preconditions to the discussion. One is it had to fix the problems. Two, it had to be able to…”

I just want to clarify one thing. It seems to me that Republicans just don't want people to pay taxes even if they are owed. We know there are hundreds of billions of dollars of owed-but-not-paid taxes in this country every year. This is…

But temporary measures can't solve permanent problems.

Several years ago, I ran into a former Member of the House and asked him whether he missed it. He answered: ``I don't miss the circus. I miss the clowns.'' Now that I am in my final days as a Member and have reflected on my 16 years here…

The fact is that the Clinton-Gingrich budgets worked, they reduced the inflation rate, they reduced the tax rate, they created jobs.