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For the Legislative Branch portion of the bill, the Senate is slated to get $10 million — $1 million of those funds would be sent to the sergeant-at-arms to cover teleworking costs for committees and offices
[jwp-video n=”1″] The highly contagious virus is already at the door of some prisons and sparking changes.
[jwp-video n=”1″] “We’re reviewing it now. We have our staff and our chairmen reviewing the bill. I’m optimistic, but we’ll see,” she said.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Most of the paperwork would come at the end: Companies would need to prove they actually needed the loans and used them as intended when they apply for debt forgiveness.
[jwp-video n=”1″] But DOE would need money from Congress to make purchases for the SPR. The department has about $10 million in its SPR fund.
The recipient intends to restore at least 90 percent of workforce that existed on Feb. 1, 2020, and restore all compensation and benefits to workers within 4 months of the end of Health and Human Services
[jwp-video n=”1″] The bill would also set aside $14.3 billion for direct grants to higher education institutions, with priority given to schools with high number of Pell Grant recipients and
The bill would provide $1 billion toward purchases under the Defense Production Act, a Korean War-era law that gives the president broad authorities to provide domestic industry with financial incentives
[jwp-video n=”1″] Jacob Fischler, Jessica Wehrman, Bridget Bowman, Paul M. Krawzak, Ellyn Ferguson, Doug Sword, Todd Ruger, Andrew Clevenger and Chris Marquette contributed to this report.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Sasse said on the floor he too would support the broader stimulus measure.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Democratic plans The House led negotiations with the White House on the first two phases of Congress’ response to the pandemic, but the Senate took the lead on the phase three
It makes sense when your economy is nose-diving to spend some money that can be borrowed at under 1 percent.”
[jwp-video n=”1″] The early voting and mail-in voting mandates were not included in the spending package, but the sources cited a summary that said the funds would be used “to increase the ability
[jwp-video n=”1″] But a Senate Finance Committee Democratic aide not authorized to speak on the record about the issue said trying to limit a benefit increase to a worker’s full salary presented
Among other provisions, the House bill would provide $1 billion for the Transportation Department to buy fuel-inefficient planes from airlines that they would replace with new models with lower carbon
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[jwp-video n=”1″] Roaring back “There has to be some emphasis on making sure the economy is strong coming out of this,” said Skanda Amarnath, director of research at Employ America.
Schumer, D-N.Y., said the procedural votes on the coronavirus relief bill, which took place Monday at 1:30 p.m., were “irrelevant” because negotiations between congressional leaders were ongoing.