John Yarmuth: “I was fortunate enough to be elected as one of the 43 new Democrats in that class. And many people have said, in…”

“I was fortunate enough to be elected as one of the 43 new Democrats in that class. And many people have said, in examining that election, oh, we were elected because of the war in Iraq. But that's not what I heard. What I heard when I was campaigning in 2006, and I think most of my colleagues in this class would say the same thing, is we want to return the Government to the tenets of the Constitution. We want to restore the checks and balances that the Founding Fathers prescribed. We want to make sure that this President and every President is held accountable, is not above the law. So when we came here, one of the things we did was to start talking about article I, which established that all legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States. We started wearing these buttons, article I buttons, and we offered them to Members of both parties, hoping that this would not be a partisan issue and not be an expression of partisanship but, instead, a respect for the integrity of this institution.”