John Yarmuth: “I think it would be valuable to hear from these agencies and others as we consider priorities for the 2019 budget.”

And the third thing I would say is healthcare.

I want to respond one more time to these claims about 87,000 new IRS agents. The IRS has never made any announcement about plans to hire any number of agents. The Washington Post fact-checker has actually given that claim three Pinocchios…

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.

I thank the gentleman for yielding; and I do mean the gentleman. It has been an honor over these last 16 years to participate in this event. My record as a captain after the first 4 years was not very good; and, actually, John Tanner was…