Where was John Yarmuth educated between Sep 1964 and Oct 1964?
John Yarmuth John Allan Yarmuth ( ; born November 4 , 1947 ) is an American politician and former newspaper editor serving as the U.S . Representative for since 2007 . His district encompasses the vast majority of the Louisville Metro Area . Since 2013 , he has been the only Democratic member of Kentuckys congressional delegation . Yarmuth currently serves as the chairman of the House Budget Committee . Early life , education and career . Yarmuth was born in Louisville , Kentucky , the son of Edna E . ( née Klein ) and Stanley R . Yarmuth . He is descended from Jewish immigrants from Russia and Austria . He graduated from Atherton High School . He later graduated from Yale University , majoring in American Studies , and attended Georgetown University Law Center . He worked for Republican U.S . Senator Marlow Cook from 1971 to 1975 , then returned to Louisville and launched his publishing career by founding the Louisville Today magazine , which operated from 1976 to 1982 . He later worked as a vice-president of University Relations at the University of Louisville , where he was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa as an honoris causa initiate in 2014 . Publisher and columnist . In 1990 , Yarmuth founded the Louisville Eccentric Observer ( LEO ) , a weekly newspaper for which he wrote a generally progressive political column that was usually featured on the first page . In 2003 , Yarmuth sold LEO to a company owned by Times Publishing Company of Pennsylvania , owner of the Erie Times-News . Yarmuth remained on board as a columnist and consultant until January 2006 , when he put his column on hiatus to run for Congress . U.S . House of Representatives . Elections . 2006 . Yarmuth filed candidacy papers on January 31 , 2006 , to represent . Having won the Democratic primary on May 16 , defeating Andrew Horne , Burrell Charles Farnsley and James W . Moore , he defeated incumbent Anne Northup ( R ) in November of that year . On August 7 , 2006 , The Courier-Journal reported that The Hill revealed a week before that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had earmarked $51.5 million for television advertising in 32 congressional districts across the nation , but none for Yarmuths challenge in the third congressional district . On October 20 , a Courier-Journal article stated that a WHAS11/SurveyUSA poll revealed the race had tightened dramatically , with Yarmuth leading Northup 48 to 47 percent . Another poll a month earlier had Northup leading by 6 points . A WHAS11/SurveyUSA poll released on November 2 showed Yarmuth leading Northup 52 to 44 percent . On October 26 , Yarmuth told Courier-Journal reporter Kay Stewart that he would donate his congressional salary—which would be $168,500 in 2007—to local charity . Because polls close early in Kentucky , many analysts saw this race as a key indicator and it immediately became one of the most watched House races in the nation . In the general election , Yarmuth garnered 122,139 votes ( 51% ) to Northups 116,157 votes ( 48% ) . Independent candidates garnered 2,896 votes ( 1% ) . 2008 . Yarmuth ran unopposed in the primary , and faced Anne Northup in a rematch of the 2006 general election . Yarmuth won the 2008 election with 59% of the vote . 2010 . Yarmuth was challenged by Republican Todd Lally and Independent Michael D . Hansen . Yarmuth was re-elected successfully with 53% of the vote . 2012 . Yarmuth was challenged by Republican Brooks Wicker and Independent candidate Robert L . Devore Jr . Yarmuth received 206,385 votes ( 63.96% ) , Brooks Wicker received 111,452 votes ( 23.32% ) , and Robert L . Devore Jr . received 4,819 votes ( 1.49% ) . 2014 . In the 2014 General Election , Yarmuth was challenged by Republican Dr . Michael McFarlane and Independent Gregory Puccetti . On October 6 , 2014 , Kentucky Educational Television hosted a debate which was broadcast live on Louisvilles KET , and was moderated by KET host Bill Goodman . Yarmuth went on to win reelection with 63.5% of the votes cast . 2016 . Yarmuth was challenged by Republican Harold Bratcher and Independent Everett Corley . Yarmuth won with 63% of the vote , receiving 212,388 votes . Harold Bratcher received 37% of the vote , totaling 122,085 ballots cast in his name . Everett Corley received no votes in the election . 2018 . On April 17 , 2017 , Yarmuth announced that he would run for a seventh term in the 2018 election . During the campaign , he lobbied for chairpersonship of the House Budget Committee and promised to hold hearings on Medicare for all . Yarmuth won re-election with over 62% of the vote against Vickie Yates Glisson , Kentuckys former Secretary of Health and Family Services . After the Democrats took the House , Yarmuth became Budget Committee chairman . In that position , he requested documents pertaining to the withholding of appropriated defense funds to Ukraine . As of November 2019 , the administration of Donald Trump has only partly complied with the request . Tenure . Yarmuth took office on January 3 , 2007 . As of 2019 , he is serving his seventh term as Congressman . After his first year in Congress , Yarmuth donated his post-tax congressional salary of just over $120,000 to various charities in Louisville . On February 8 , 2008 , Yarmuth endorsed Barack Obama in his successful bid for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States . On September 29 , 2008 , Yarmuth voted against the TARP bailout plan , as negotiated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , President George W . Bush , House Minority Leader John Boehner , and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell . However , he did vote in favor of the second version of the bailout bill . Yarmuth said he was so nauseated by a moment of silence for Michael Jackson on the House floor that he left the chamber . I thought it was outrageous , he said . In my two and a half years , weve not done this for anybody else . Weve done it for former members and thats about it . After winning a 2008 rematch with Anne Northup , his 2006 general election opponent , Yarmuth was rewarded by the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee with a spot on the influential Ways and Means Committee . On the committee , he worked on issues on which he campaigned before the 2008 general election : Social Security , pension , Medicare , and Medicaid issues . At a September 2009 town hall meeting , constituents were unhappy with Yarmuths decision to support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act . Yarmuth stayed calm in the face of boos and catcalls from some in the audience according to an Associated Press report . He warned that the current health care system is an unsustainable drain on businesses and the nations economy . In 2011 , Yarmuth introduced a bill alongside Republican Congressman Walter Jones that would seek to overturn key parts of the controversial court case Citizens United v . FEC . The legislation would also give Congress the power to enact mandatory public financing for Congressional candidates and create a national holiday for voting purposes . In 2011 , Yarmuth voted against the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 due to a controversial provision which allows the government and the military to indefinitely detain American citizens and others without trial . In 2013 , Yarmuth introduced the Fair Elections Now Act , which would establish a public financing system for Congressional campaigns . In 2015 , Yarmuth once again made an attempt at removing dark money from the political sphere by Proposing HR 2125 , the Keeping our Campaigns Honest Act of 2015 , however the bill realistically had no chance of passing in the 114th Congress in which it was proposed . Yarmuth signed onto a Medicare for All bill in the House , along with 120 other Democrats in 2018 , supporting single-payer healthcare . Yarmuth is the only Kentuckian member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus . On December 18 , 2019 , Yarmuth voted for both articles of impeachment against President Donald J . Trump and was the only person representing Kentucky in the House to do so . For his tenure as the chairman of the House Budget Committee in the 116th Congress , Yarmuth earned an A grade from the non-partisan Lugar Centers Congressional Oversight Hearing Index . Committee assignments . - Chairman , Committee on the Budget - Committee on Education and Labor Party leadership . - Regional Whip Caucuses memberships . Yarmuths caucus memberships include : Television . In 2003 , Yarmuth and former WHAS-AM radio talk show host John Ziegler debated political issues on the weekly WAVE program Yarmuth & Ziegler , with Yarmuth taking the liberal side and Ziegler , the conservative side . On a successor program , Hot Button , which ran from September 2004 to December 2005 , he faced off with conservative Jim Milliman . Yarmuth appeared on the March 8 , 2007 , episode of The Colbert Report in the shows Better Know a District series . In a parody of Yarmuths former Yarmuth & Ziegler debate series , host Stephen Colbert prodded Yarmuth into a point/counterpoint style debate . After agreeing to the debate , Colbert forced Yarmuth to defend the shredding of kittens in wood chippers , which Yarmuth gamely proceeded to do . Colbert referred to Yarmuth as a real-life Bruce Wayne , and presented him with a framed print of his congressional photo with a Batman mask photoshopped over his face . Personal life . Yarmuth has served on many boards including the Bingham Child Guidance Center and Kentucky Country Day School . He is Kentuckys first Jewish congressman . Yarmuth and his wife , Cathy Yarmuth , have one son , Aaron , who is a graduate of Kentucky Country Day . Aaron is currently the owner of the Louisville Eccentric Observer .