John Yarmuth

I thank the gentleman from Colorado. Madam Speaker, yesterday our Republican colleagues said that their party was using the leverage of the default crisis to get what they want, their ideological agenda passed. The problem is it's not what…

I thank my colleague for yielding. Mr. Speaker, Congress' approval rating is now down around 10 percent, and given the debate on this politically induced default crisis, I have to ask myself: Who are these crazy 10 percent? The American…

When we, in this House, decide how the taxpayers' money is going to be spent, it represents a statement of our values, a statement of our priorities. And the question of whether we should adequately fund the National Endowment for the Arts…

I know my constituents and most Americans are trying to figure out exactly what this debt ceiling crisis is. It can't be about a desire to cut spending because both sides have already agreed to more cuts than are on the table in either the…

Nearly every economist in our country and leaders from both sides of the aisle agree: Defaulting on our debt would be disastrous to our economy, to middle class families, and to our most vulnerable citizens. Yet more than 60 of my…

We've heard at rallies all across the country over the last couple of years: We want to take our country back. Well, today, when we're voting on the so-called Cut, Cap, and Balance Act, we now know where they want to take our country back…

for those people under 55-years old, Medicare would no longer exist.

We have a lot of Americans who engage in very reckless behavior; but generally, that reckless behavior only affects them or maybe their friends or neighbors. The Republican majority in this Congress is reckless enough that they want to…

I thank my colleague from Colorado. Mr. Speaker, I rise to oppose the rule. When the Republicans last fall traveled around the country asking the American people to return this House to their control, they promised two things. One, they…

We are now less than 6 weeks away from a magical date, August 2. That is the day when the Secretary of Treasury said we will essentially have to foreclose on the United States of America. We will begin paying China before we pay our…

Before I came to Congress, I was a newspaper editor in Louisville, Kentucky. And as an editor, my job was to make sure that our stories revealed the truth and made things easier to understand for our readers. Right now, the Republican…

We have heard a lot in the media about the political tea party. You know, there is another kind of tea party; that's where children play with their imaginary friends. We saw an example of that kind of imagination last night in this…

Yesterday on this floor a number of my Democratic colleagues took the floor to talk about the Republican plan to eliminate Medicare as we know it. Now, in response to that, some of my Republican friends stood up and said, well, where is…

if House Republicans or if anyone has a problem with our environmental laws, they ought to make--take the initiative to change the law.

So, in fact, whereas we heard a lot about 'drill, baby, drill' under prior administrations, the actual evidence shows that production has expanded under this administration where it actually hadn't under previous administrations.

I apologize to the witness, Dr. Warren, for the rude and disrespectful behavior of the chair.

the threats to our consumers, the threats to our constituents, and possibly very, very effective ways to combat them.

This past Tuesday, 41 House Republicans sent a letter to President Obama pleading with him to stop the criticism of the GOP's plan to turn Medicare into a private voucher system--a system that would cost future seniors thousands of dollars…

With gas prices in my district in Louisville, Kentucky hitting $4, as they are all over the country, ExxonMobil just reported earnings of $10.7 billion for the quarter, almost 70 percent higher than last year. BP, Conoco, Shell, and…

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Chairman, we know that budgets are about values. As the chairman of the Budget Committee has mentioned, they are about choices. And we know that this reckless Republican budget makes a very disastrous choice. It…

I thank the gentleman and thanks for his participation. I just want to say in closing that budget battles are more about dollars, and I think all of us on both sides of the aisle believe that and live by that, or want to live by that…

I thank the gentleman. We have a couple minutes left. I would just like to yield to my friend, Mr. Garamendi, for some closing comments about making it in America.

I thank the gentleman. He mentioned the ``road to ruin.'' It's also a road we've been down before.

It is a road we've been down before. Back under the Reagan administration, this whole magical economic theory of trickle-down economics was developed. And the idea was, you let people at the top make as much as they possibly can, do as…

It is a great honor to be here on the floor of the House of Representatives talking to the American people about one of the most critical things that this body does, and that is to decide how much money we ask our citizens to contribute to…