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

Major spending package planned for Senate floor faces doubts

A mid-decade redistricting effort in Indiana that could target Democratic Rep. Frank J. Mrvan has hit a roadblock in the state Senate.

Republican efforts to redraw Indiana’s congressional map stall again

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., was among the Democrats who forged a deal to re-open the government.

In shutdown deal, bipartisan legislating trumped party unity

A chair with a “broken” sign sits in a hallway in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Oct. 30. As the federal government emerges from a shutdown, members of Congress have some thoughts on lessons learned.

After a shutdown, no ‘A’s for effort

The Capitol dome is lit on Wednesday night as the House prepared to pass the funding bill to end the partial government shutdown. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

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A worker stocks Angus beef top-sirloin filets in the meat section of a grocery store in Washington.

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