John Yarmuth

Big Business Sounds Alarms Over GOP Debt Limit Hostage Plan

The outgoing House Budget chairman said bypassing the issue in the lame duck period is akin to giving Republicans “a legislative nuclear weapon.”
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Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Standoff: Paid Sick Leave, A Payroll Tax Cut — Or Both

Republicans seem more likely to go along with paid sick leave before Democrats agree to a payroll tax cut.
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Trump Is Flailing. Congress Has Only One Way To Respond.

For a president who ignores the courts, the power of the purse and even his Republican allies, the only answer is impeachment.
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Ocasio-Cortez On Trump Impeachment: It’s ‘Outrageous’ For GOP To Protect This ‘Lawlessness’

The congresswoman told reporters that she wants to see every Republican who opposes impeachment to "go on the record" with a formal vote.
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Kentucky's Only Congressional Democrat Has A Theory For How To Beat Mitch McConnell

Boosting turnout in Kentucky's blue cities may be Democrats' only chance to unseat the unpopular Senate leader.
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Ocasio-Cortez Deletes Tweet After Mistaken Attack On Fellow Democrat

The New York lawmaker apparently tried to mock a member of her own party as one of the GOP's "older male members."
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House Democrats Cancel Budget Vote, And Progressives Think They Won Something

They didn't, really. House leaders had already set the spending plan in motion.
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Democrats Consider Abandoning Budget Floor Vote

More growing pains for the new House majority.
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GOP Candidate Suggests Shooting Democratic Congressman Who Supports Gun Control

Carl Nett later apologized for his "attempt to be clever."
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Rural Lawmakers Hammer Trump’s Budget

Democratic lawmakers from rural areas called President Trump’s first budget “ignorant” and “devastating” to farmers and rural America.
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