John Yarmuth

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.

I am strongly urging all of my colleagues to support an adjustment in our next round of the Paycheck Protection Program to ensure non-profits like the YMCA continue to serve those in need.

the factual record is just 100 percent against that.

And we can't move forward with a full recovery without addressing the underlying racial inequities in our system.

I believe, the public will to make those systemic and long-overdue changes.

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

programs by themselves are not going to end systemic racism.

I think that is an important place where the CARES Act is simply just missing in action.

Abandoning the American people is not an option. Congress must see this recovery through.

We are going to be losing tens of thousands of businesses, if not more.

The American people need us to push the recovery along and keep support flowing.

I think virtually everyone who came out of that discussion, out of that process of almost a year's duration, said, I think as you may have said, Dr. Joyce, it was not the process, it is the will of the Members of Congress.

The only way that our democracy survives is if we adhere to the rules set forth by our founders in the Constitution.

The process was never really designed to be a governing process, and I think that is symptomatic of what confronts this government right now.

I have great empathy with the Republicans on the Committee and in the House because I spent eight years in the minority.

We have an electoral mentality. Almost regardless of what the issue is, the strategy is, 'How do I get an electoral advantage on this issue?'

I think the act requires us to do five years. In this day and age, there is no way to write a budget for 10 years.

This shows a lack of strategy that will result in inefficient military spending and a less effective military if not corrected.

the bottom line is that we are supposed to follow the Constitution, and I think that should be important.

We are all concerned by the President's politically motivated and brazen reprogramming of military funds for the border, for his border wall pet project.

There is only one law in America that protects people with pre-existing conditions, and it is the Affordable Care Act.

How can you preserve pre-existing conditions in the private insurance market without--well, I just ask you, how can you do it differently than the Affordable Care Act attempted to do it?

The fact of the matter is people with pre-existing conditions have insurance because of President Obama's health care law, which the President, President Trump, is now trying to obliterate through the federal court.

the importance of the Department of Health and Human Services cannot be overstated.

Our President is clearly not up to the task.