John Yarmuth

I welcome the gentleman from California to both Congress and the Budget Committee and I look forward to working with him. I will advise him that in just a few weeks he will have the opportunity, as a member of the Budget Committee, to go…

The gentlewoman from Georgia said that this plan is going to destroy the economy. I think it is interesting that the American Rescue Plan has received praise from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, the National Retail…

Once again, I welcome the gentleman from Florida to the House of Representatives. I really think that we ought to stop talking about States bailing other States out. The next time that a major hurricane hits Florida, we are not going to…

I think one of the essential roles of the federal government is robust investment in basic research and development.

I think that we as policymakers need to be excited about it.

I think we as policymakers need to be very careful about trying to get into adjusting the mix of capital versus labor.

I think there is a lot of possibilities there.

I think the U.S. does rely too much on imported semiconductors, which introduces at least three risks.

By refusing to bring the Heroes Act to the floor, Leader McConnell is holding up an additional $1 billion for the Federal Technology Modernization Fund and a combined $5.5 billion to help schools, libraries, and impacted families access…

But speaking more broadly about government investment in tech, if we only invest in proven solutions, we are guaranteed to lose the race to China.

The complete and total lack of any regulation in tech is why we have foreign influence in our elections, unbridled monopolistic power in big tech.

the demand at U.S. food banks, as I have seen as I go out there and volunteer every week at food banks, has gone up by an average of 70 percent compared to the same time last year.

there are three things that we absolutely have to focus on now if we are going to have a viable future, and one of them is climate change, and one of them is early childhood education, and the third one is how we are going to deal with…

I don't believe that every regulation is a meaningful, helpful, beneficial regulation.

We need to be shooting where the target is going to be, not where it is now.

We have a dilemma, and that is that Congress, at its optimum efficiency, moves at 10 miles an hour,--right now, we are at two or three miles an hour--meanwhile, the world is moving at 100 miles an hour.

it is also necessary that we do make the investments, the proper investments, going forward so that the next crisis we can be better prepared.

Let's not screw that up.

It shouldn't take a lawsuit for this Administration to release data on the racial disparities of coronavirus infections.

We should be investing more than we are right now in order to compete with other nations in science, technology, and innovation.

there is going to be a serious conversation about universal basic income.

we actually set aside some more money in the Heroes Act to go specifically to Black and women-owned and minority-owned businesses.

If we are going to reunite this country and come out on the other side of this crisis as a better nation, Congress must ensure that our recovery efforts include proactive policies.

the factual record is just 100 percent against that.

I think Fed Chair Jay Powell had it best--said it best when he acknowledged that those least able to withstand the downturn had been affected the most.