John Yarmuth

Under the expansion of Medicaid, more than 520,000 Kentuckians now have insurance who didn't have it before.

The Deloitte Firm concluded that over the next 6 years the ACA, in Kentucky, would create 40,000 new jobs.

The ACA, the uninsured rate across the state has been reduced by almost half.

I thank my colleague. That is not legitimate budgeting. That is just fantasy. That is really what the budget is about. Unfortunately, though, there is a very cruel side to this budget. As my friend from Massachusetts said, this does real…

I appreciate Mr. Van Hollen yielding. We are talking a lot about gimmicks. Even the conservative Financial Times said the Republicans had to resort to smoke and mirrors to make this budget balance. But I want to talk about one of the other…

I thank my colleague from Massachusetts for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the rule, primarily because of the gimmickry and the coldheartedness of the conference budget. It is not just myself who has understood the tricks…

I appreciate my friend being willing to yield. I rise in opposition to this rule which deems, as if passed, a budget resolution that, at best, is an economic fantasy and, at worst, does serious damage to our country. The rule before us…

I am much more concerned about the dark money that is used to flood the Nation's airwaves with anonymous ads.

I think disclosure is the best disinfectant. I think it gives our constituents an opportunity to decide whether or not we are in the clutches of some particular interest group.

I introduced today the Keeping Our Campaigns Honest Act, legislation requiring the FCC to revise their sponsorship identification rules to take in super-PACs and 501(c)(4) organizations.

Disclosure often represents a less restrictive alternative to flat bans on certain types or quantities of speech.

During rollcall 153 of the Motion to Instruct Conferees on S. Con. Res. 11, I inadvertently voted ``no''. I intended to vote ``yes'' and spoke in favor of the motion during floor debate earlier today. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without…

I thank my friend from Maryland for yielding. I like to read the comic strip in the paper every day, ``The Wizard of Id,'' and, to me, the budgets that we have seen coming out of the House and Senate are kind of like ``The Wizard of Id''…

I suspect, and with all due deference to Texas, I don't know Texas' situation, it seems to me that that is a small price to pay to have a significant reduction in carbon emissions.

One of the things that astounds me as we talk about environmental issues, and we do week after week in this subcommittee, is that we get a lot of alarmist talk.

I thank my friend for yielding. Mr. Chairman, as a 6-year member of the Budget Committee and the second ranking Democrat, I have seen this budget proposal up close and personal. I have seen the way it has been reshaped over the years, from…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I would like to repeat some things that I have heard over the last couple of weeks about this particular situation: ``I fully believe we should not be playing politics with a national…

I truly appreciate the outreach that the EPA has made to Kentucky and other States.

In fact, it did receive a majority of votes in both the House and the Senate. It was only killed because of Republicans in the Senate who filibustered that bill.

I thank my friend from Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, today, we will take our 56th vote to repeal or undermine the Affordable Care Act. In my home State of Kentucky--a nationwide success story of this law--521,000 Kentuckians enrolled in…

This week, as we consider measures aimed at combating human trafficking, I remind my colleagues of the estimated 1.6 million runaway or homeless youths under the age of 18 in the United States. The Runaway and Homeless Youth Act was…

Last night President Obama addressed the Nation and reminded us of the crossroads at which we stand: Do we continue on the path we are on where only a select few prosper while so many families struggle? Or will we instead work to rebuild…

Congress at its optimum efficiency moves at about 10 miles an hour, and the world is moving at 100.

There are a lot of games being played at this time of year. Tonight, we are going to have a national championship game for the NCAA national football championship, playoff games for the NFL championship. We have basketball games being…

This has been a fascinating week in terms of the environment. We started it with the President orchestrating one of the truly groundbreaking breakthroughs in carbon emissions and getting the Chinese, for the first time, to agree to limit…