John Yarmuth

It is over 12 million barrels a day.

The states that have done the worst in terms of preventing damage, health consequences to their citizens, they have been Republican led states and not Democratic led states.

I don't really think that it is appropriate to say that it is about men versus women, that it is much more appropriate to say that it is about governmental policy and how you shut down an economy.

Virtually all of the American Rescue Plan was designed to deal with the impact of COVID.

We have to focus as much on building capacity as we do on helping our citizens afford service.

We do need to provide much better oversight over everything the government does.

As Members of this Committee have often reminded us, budgets are a statement of values.

The American Rescue Plan was responsible for less than 1 percent of the inflation we are experiencing.

The economics of war is terrible. It doesn't produce any economic benefit that is broadly felt.

I am happy to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Chu), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

That is another thing we are going to hear continuously throughout the day, and that is that these are socialist programs; just as we heard last week that building infrastructure in this country was a socialist activity. And now childcare…

It must be easy to be a Republican in Congress these days because you can make things up. You can throw out numbers without any fear of being contradicted. But we will have, probably by the end of the day, a CBO score from the…

He is to a certain extent -- well, to a very large extent shameless. He doesn`t care about being called hypocritical.

Mitch is probably beyond worrying about Donald Trump too much for himself. What he worries about now is his colleagues in the senate, some of whom are very vulnerable in next year`s elections.

This is an incredible step forward in correcting that.

You`re going to see Republicans all over the country showing up at ribbon cuttings as a result of the passing of the infrastructure plan.

Yes, Lawrence, thanks for having me on. I do believe it is possible. As you mentioned, the proposals now for the billionaire's tax are pretty complex. I think we can come to conceptual agreement, but, you know, what I prefer to think of is…

Only the federal government can deal with many of these problems.

The question would be why does anyone think that the top line number is significant in any way?

I plan to vote for that bill if we ever have a vote on it.

The question is what does the country need us to do.

They’re only concerned about their own brand. They’re not thinking about the objective of not just the Democratic Party but what’s a good policy for the country.

The constitution actually prescribes in the 14th Amendment that you never question the debt of the United States.

Nobody pays a price for lying. Nobody is held accountable.

He’s wrong. You know, he tries to make this case that this is all about passing the ability to incur future debts. This is all about paying for what we have already committed ourselves to.