John Yarmuth

Deficit-financed tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations are clearly an irresponsible use of deficits.

I promise you we were supposed to debate ambitious, incredible infrastructure development plans this year, and we haven't.

So when we are talking about cutting federal spending, we are cutting GDP at the same time.

I want to find what those things are we agree on, because the three of us had an opportunity to serve on a bipartisan, bicameral budget process reform committee last cycle.

What can you do about that, and what can this Budget Committee do about it?

Investments in children's health care and preschool and college attainment pay for themselves over the long run.

I didn't have much economics education on my way through school, so I am using my chairmanship to become educated.

Humana is based in my district. Humana is about a--right now, about a $60 billion-a-year company.

the President's repeated attacks on this critical institution are unacceptable and dangerous.

Several times in the discussion today, you have mentioned that our debt is growing faster than the economy and that that by definition makes it unsustainable.

It is time for us to consider new approaches.

immigration reform--I agree with you, the Ranking Member, and everybody else--is something that is not optional. It is mandatory.

it is estimated in about 2045, 87 percent of the population growth of the country would be from immigration.

In my district, over the last 10 years, 100 percent of the population growth has been from immigration.

Unfortunately, the Trump Administration is pursuing policies that will put more families in jeopardy.

Can you please keep Texas strong?

It just strikes me as surreal that we continue to get in this infinite do-loop about talking about a tax cut.

We have got a real problem we are going to have to address there in Central Texas.

I, too, want to echo my colleague from Missouri's comments about the fact that we are sitting here and have not passed a budget.

I would also note that we are spending about a half a billion dollars a year to secure the border of the United States in Texas because this body failed to secure the border.

We are racking up $100 million of debt per hour in this country.

We need the federal government to step in and assist so people can continue or these regions can continue to send money to the federal government here.

I cannot agree with you. I mean, in Houston, obviously, what they went through, they need help and even though Texas is a rich state.

We have workers who made some sacrifices to save their company when GM was on the verge of going bankrupt.

the current policies are detrimental to the nation's economic growth and to the American middle class