John Yarmuth

As a Congress, we really have to deal with this subject. We can't put it off.

Immigrants will account for nearly 87 percent of U.S. population growth by 2049, up from 45 percent today.

Republicans have stood in the way to prevent any comprehensive immigration reform.

It is our responsibility as a Member of Congress to really, truly do something to fund DHS and HHS.

This is a President who likes railing about immigration far more than doing anything about it.

The hearing was a prospective look at how important immigration is and will continue to be for the sustainability of our economy and our society.

the only thing that I can think of that might be a bigger vote in something broken is our budget process

I am pro-family, and I am also, as we have just said recently, I am pro-legal immigration.

the real problem in doing comprehensive immigration reform is that in today's world, Republicans want to focus on border security.

His campaign of stoking fear and prejudice ignores reality.

We have to ask the question: What works and what doesn't?

People are hungry in this country. We need to do something about it.

One of the things that the civil rights movement, I think, taught us was that individual morality is not enough.

Of course, I want to pay a special greeting to Reverend Barber. His work as the leader of the Moral Monday, the inspiration and the leader of the Moral Monday movement in North Carolina, has as moved our state.

Nancy Pelosi, who spoke in this Committee just at the very beginning, said that a budget is a statement of your values.

The challenge for the Congress, which is the, I guess, the final arbiter of these issues, is to figure out how much we have to spend, what programs are most meaningful and beneficial to arrive at the outcomes that can address the root…

the goal of this government should be to lift as many people out of poverty as possible.

A moral economy would save taxpayers billions of dollars.

There is not a person on this dais that does not want to see every single person in this country lifted out of poverty to become productive in their lives, to make really, really good personal decisions, to really live that American Dream.

If we don't make sure non-white Americans make a lot of money and pay a lot of taxes, then white America is not going to retire.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. We live in a land of plenty. Poverty is evil. And government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary, and there are people in distress.

We have siloed these issues that can't be siloed. Poverty, systemic racism, systemic ecological devastation, a war economy must be seen together.

I always say government is the way we recognize our--we organize our responsibilities to each other.

I am asking Speaker Pelosi and the House Democrats to pass a budget.

You can argue it, but you can't argue the fact that it hasn't worked.