John Yarmuth: “I want to thank my colleagues from the Budget Committee for joining me, and thanks to the American people for paying…”

But temporary measures can't solve permanent problems.

Of course, congratulations to the victors. It is getting old. I had that trophy for a little while. I haven't seen it in quite some time.

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.