John Yarmuth

I will remind my colleague that his vote today to repeal the Affordable Care Act will result in 939,000 people from his State of New York losing their healthcare coverage, 131,000 workers losing their jobs, and an economic loss of $89.7…

I have an amendment in the nature of a substitute. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION…

The Republican rush to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, to take health insurance from 30 million Americans, introduce chaos into the health insurance market, and give millionaires and billionaires a giant tax cut is misguided and does…

As I said in my closing to the debate on the resolution itself, it would be wonderful if the Republicans had a plan that they could describe to the American people so that American families would know what would be in their healthcare…

I thank my colleague. Mr. Speaker, as a strong supporter of a two-state solution, as a Jewish Member of Congress and as someone who has been to Israel and has seen the settlements firsthand, I rise in strong opposition to this resolution…

I am very happy to have won the arm wrestling match among Kentucky Democrats to welcome Jamie Comer to the House tonight. Jamie and I have worked together on a number of issues through the years, and I can say without hesitation that, no…

I hope going forward we can agree to start from there.

We had very different views on how to solve that problem, but at least we started from the same place.

We debate all the time in this committee essentially what the priorities of government should be.

His plan as Speaker...would reduce the amount of non-discretionary spending in this country to its lowest level.

I agree with many of the comments my colleagues have made about how interesting this hearing has been, and while I joked a little bit about not restoring trust through this hearing, I think I did not really mean that there are not ideas…

President Obama inherited the weakest economy since the Great Depression.

We know the investments in housing, health care, and education help American families build better futures while spurring economic growth for our Nation.

To restore the trust of the American people, we must restore what the government does.

We Democrats are pushing for investment in infrastructure and investment in education, research and development.

if it is on shaky ground it is because Republicans both in Congress and across the country where they have the authority are planting dynamite in the ground under the system.

the Republicans in Congress again hold hearings like this, vote time and time again, more than 60 times to repeal the ACA, and have never proposed an alternative that is anything but going back to where we were before the ACA when…

So what he is doing is setting up for you to reject the proposal and then he is going to dismantle Medicaid expansion in Kentucky, take insurance away from 400,000 of our citizens, jeopardize many providers who are now being compensated…

And the reason that they have not proposed a viable alternative to the ACA other than going back to the pre-ACA situation, I am convinced, is because the only other alternative is single payer.

the reason he did that was not because of any reason that made sense either economically or in terms of providing service for our citizens, but because he has an ideological opposition to Kynect and promised to do it during the campaign.

I want to thank my colleague for yielding. I am beginning to feel a little bit like ``Groundhog Day.'' Unfortunately, no matter what Bill Murray does, the result seems to be the same. We keep changing team members, strategies, and so…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

I appreciate the comments of my good friend from Florida. I understand that this amendment has no legal impact in terms of forcing the FCC to do what it is statutorily required to do. It is just a prod. It is a way to say to them: We…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kentucky will be postponed. The Acting CHAIR. The Chair understands that amendment No. 55…

We have heard Speaker Ryan say it. We have heard Majority Leader McCarthy say it. We have heard Leader Pelosi say it. We have heard Whip Hoyer say it. We have all said it. We proudly refer to this body as the people's House. Well, implicit…