John Yarmuth

Kentucky is doing a great job with our exchange. As of this morning, we have 350,000 people that have explored the Web site.

We must also consider the impact on the communities that are downwind.

I know better than anybody perhaps what is like to lose that amount of jobs, but we need a comprehensive solution and we need a bipartisan solution.

I have enormous affection for that region and the people in it.

We knew that then. And yet coal-mining employment still increased from 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.

They are interested in their health and the harm mountaintop removal mining is doing to their families, friends and neighbors.

According to the title of this hearing, we are going to hear about the perspective of coal communities, but let me assure you, the concerns of residents in the coal communities of Kentucky do not stop after they open their utility bill.

if he is actually engaged in a war on coal as it affects coal miners, he is not doing a very good job of it because coal mining employment has actually improved.

a huge number have already done so, actually have enrolled in affordable insurance for the first time

the experience in Kentucky has been extraordinarily successful

While I hope today is the last day of the senseless government shutdown, I want to share a part of a letter from one of my constituents, Lindsay Smith, a medical student and 2nd lieutenant in the Air Force's Health Professions Scholarship…

The last thing Congress needs is more special interest candidates who don't answer to the American people; and yet this morning, the Senate minority leader and his big money allies in the Republican Party once again asked the Supreme Court…

I am very honored to be a part of the committee, even though it appears I just joined a game of Trivial Pursuit.

As a reminder when we go back to the year that this law was being debated in 2009, premiums for businesses were going up in many places as high as 38 percent.

Kentucky has embraced the Affordable Care Act.

what the Affordable Care Act did was allow us to make this business move

nothing in the Affordable Care Act would force an employer to change their coverage

So we believe that you grow the economy from the middle class out.

The law is not designed to enable employers to obstruct union representation.

the Supreme Court has said it is constitutional, and that is the only judgment that matters in that regard.

I wish the environment was such that we could work to make the Affordable Care Act function as well as possible rather than having a debate over whether we preserve it in the law.

Thank you for holding today's hearing.

But you have not actually been sent a bill. You do not know it?

Because of their great work in preparing Kentucky's health insurance marketplace, our Commonwealth is positioned to be a national model.

I do not think would necessarily solve any of the issues that you raised.