John Yarmuth

Mr. YARMUTH

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott), the distinguished chairman of the Education and Labor Committee and also a member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 45 seconds to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Brendan F. Boyle), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters), the distinguished chair of the Committee on Financial Services.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 45 seconds to the gentlewoman from Virginia (Ms. Wexton), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 45 seconds to the distinguished gentleman from Texas (Mr. Doggett), a member of Budget Committee.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 45 seconds to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Cicilline), a distinguished member of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 45 seconds to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Kildee), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 45 seconds to the gentleman from California (Mr. Khanna), a distinguished member of the Agriculture Committee and Oversight and Reform Committee.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 45 seconds to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz), a distinguished member of the Oversight and Reform Committee and the Appropriations Committee.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Green), a distinguished member of the Financial Services Committee.

Mr. YARMUTH

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material in the Record on H.R. 1319.

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

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Nevada (Mr. Horsford), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, on Monday our Nation crossed an unfathomable milestone. More than half a million Americans have now died from the coronavirus. On top of this staggering level of loss is the reality that the virus is evolving, and we are now dealing with variants that are more contagious and highly infectious for both adults and children. At the same time, our Nation faces a painful and unequal recession, one from which we cannot fully recover until the coronavirus is contained. The resources Congress provided last year have been put to good use, but they are not enough. Vaccines can stop this virus, but we don't have the resources or infrastructure to get them out fast enough. Food banks are still overwhelmed, and rental assistance is running out. Unemployment benefits for millions of Americans will start to expire in just a few days. And more and more small businesses are closing their doors for good each day. We are in a race against time and the American people are counting on us and the American Rescue Plan. This plan is tailored and targeted. It will address the urgent needs of the American people: beating the virus, quickly and equitably distributing vaccines, safely reopening schools, delivering immediate relief to working families, and helping cities and States keep essential workers on the job and critical services up and running. The American people are painfully aware of the challenges we face, and that is why the majority of them, the vast majority of them, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents support this relief package. If you don't think Congress has more work to do here, then you either don't get what American families are going through, or you don't care. I don't know how else to say it. Relief cannot wait, and we aren't going to wait. We are going to pass this legislation today, and we are going to provide the aggressive, bold action needed to finally end this pandemic and rebuild our economy. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), the Speaker of the House.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Higgins), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Brendan F. Boyle), another distinguished member from the Budget Committee.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Jayapal), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lee), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. Peters), another distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Sires), another distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, it is fascinating to stand here at almost 10 minutes after midnight and debate this bill and have our Republican colleagues say, ``There has been no debate on this bill.'' In fact, there has been more than 100 hours of debate on this bill in committees. There have been hundreds of amendments proposed, most by Republicans. Mr. Speaker, the reason we are here so late tonight is because Republicans proposed hundreds of those amendments today in the Rules Committee, amendments that had already been debated and discussed in the various committees. This bill has had extensive discussion, and unfortunately, part of this discussion has been a misrepresentation of much of what it does. We hear constantly this figure of $1 trillion out there that has not been spent. We tried to track that trillion dollars down. We can't find it anywhere. What we do know is that all the money that has been allocated and deployed by prior relief measures is in the pipeline, has been allocated, has been assigned, has been obligated. There is no money wasted in this legislation. Also, what we know is that about 85 percent of the adults in every one of the speakers' districts, Democrat and Republican, will get $1,400 to help them make it through this desperate economy that we have been seeing. Every child will be granted a tax credit of $3,000. A family of four, for instance, will get $5,600, plus the tax credits. That is in everybody's district. As the minority leader said, we can talk about a swamp. I think he has been swimming in a swamp for about 4 years. Unfortunately, he needs to knock his head and knock some of that water out of his ears because he needs to stand on the Earth that we all occupy, the country that we occupy, and understand the pain and the suffering that the American people have been going through and for whom this bill is so essential. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, one of the things that we constantly have to remember is where we have been over the last year and the depths to which this economy has fallen, the pain and suffering that the American people have experienced. Mr. Speaker, 500,000 of our fellow citizens have perished by the coronavirus. That is why the polling on this bill is so overwhelming: 76 percent of the American people this week, 60 percent of Republicans. That is why 150 or more top CEOs from the country have said this is the right thing to do at this time. This is why the chairman of the Fed has said that we need to make this kind of investment in the country. That is why several regional presidents of the Fed have said that. That is why nonprofits have said this all over the country. That is why the U.S. Conference of Mayors has said this is the right bill for the time. We have met the moment with this legislation. We have met the moment of need in this country. We are proud of the product we produced. We will make sure that the American people get through this pandemic, this economic crisis, this healthcare crisis, this personal crisis, and restore their standard of living and the economy of this country once we get to the other side. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. YARMUTH

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that in the engrossment of the bill, H.R. 1319, the Clerk be authorized to make technical corrections and conforming changes to the bill.

Mr. YARMUTH

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 85, I call up the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 11) establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2021 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2022 through 2030, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.

Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on H. Con. Res. 11.