John Yarmuth: “I predicted that the fiscal and budgetary plan of the majority was in two parts.”

But temporary measures can't solve permanent problems.

It is imperative that every person that has been sent to Washington to serve their communities, their districts, that they do the right thing when it comes to saving lives.

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.

When we passed welfare reform it was principled, work-oriented, a system wide overhaul, and it worked.