Coronavirus Special Report: Evening update, 3/16

By Shawn Zeller and Evan Campbell

Posted March 16, 2020 at 4:56pm

This episode of Coronavirus Special Report rounds up all the policy news of the day including President Donald Trump’s latest remarks, the stimulus package and what the nation’s hospitals and health care workers say they need.

Show Notes:

Road ahead: COVID-19 stimulus still behind FISA on Senate schedule
Airlines seek $58 billion in aid for business lost to pandemic
Supreme Court delays arguments for the first outbreak since Spanish flu
Census delays outreach due to coronavirus concerns

Trump hits cultural issues in midterms pep talk to Turning Point crowd

McKinley listens during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Oct. 12, 2017. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Former House member David McKinley dies at 79

A Cannon House Office Building exit door is seen in 2023.

Resign of the times — Congressional Hits and Misses

Republicans struggled with passing long-term extensions of FISA and the distraction of a Trump administration fight with the pope, but did swear in a new member. Rep. Clay Fuller, R-Ga., his wife Kate and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., pose at his ceremonial swearing-in on Tuesday.

A week of lots of noise, few results in Congress

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. arrives to testify at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing in the Longworth House Office Building on Thursday.

RFK Jr. distances himself from measles outbreak, bashes Tylenol study

Spectators are seen on North Capitol Street during the Rock 'n' Roll half marathon on March 21.

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