John Yarmuth

He doesn't control the oil companies.

Nobody has said you can't drill--that they can't drill.

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.

We have 2 million people in the United States, 2 million people who should be getting Medicaid coverage that provides comprehensive coverage including mental health coverage, acute, and long-term care, they should be getting Medicaid and…

And the third thing I would say is healthcare.

So, we need to invest in our kids because when we invest in our kids, when kids have more economic stability, when they go to good quality schools, when they have adequate nutrition, when those things happen, kids thrive and they can…

But temporary measures can't solve permanent problems.

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.

You misspoke. You said tax rates instead of interest rates.

Experts across the ideological spectrum agree that the main drivers of current inflation are international supply chain issues and energy price hikes caused by Russia's war in Ukraine.

Thanks to the Rescue Plan, unemployment is near historic lows at 3.6 percent.

The child poverty rate dropped nearly 40 percent from 2020 to 2021.

I want to thank Dr. Swagel for being here.

The Rescue Plan laid the foundation for America's unprecedented recovery and economic resilience, and we are in a far better place because of it.

The debt ceiling has become almost an arbitrary thing every few years where we just constantly raise it.

I just wanted to communicate through this Member Day my commitment from Utah for Utahans to be one of the most financially--fiscally responsible states in the nation.

I am actually really excited as I have been listening to previous testimony that some of those ideas have already been incorporated.

I would also like to know why on Earth they think raising taxes on half of Americans, from teachers to firefighters, is a solution to high inflation.

The Federal Reserve is best positioned to tackle immediate inflation concerns, and Congress can and must do everything it can to lower costs for American families overall.

I have kind of a rhetorical question, but I am going to ask it. Are you aware of any time when the Department of Defense has requested a budget that was less money than they thought they needed?

This is not an optional exercise for this country to do a comprehensive immigration reform, it is mandatory.

I say that as a son who had a chance to watch his father pass away in my home and cared for him and my mother for four years while I was living in Sacramento.

And every Republican president since then has left office with a worse deficit situation than they inherited, without exception.

I want to point out, as you know, that every Democratic president since Kennedy is--every Democratic administration since Kennedy has left office with a better deficit situation than they inherited, without exception.

We have hit 24 months of a highly distorted economy. It is going to take time to recover and we are in fact recovering.