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[jwp-video n=”1″] Four district court nominations on Thursday’s agenda — William Scott Hardy for the Western District of Pennsylvania; John Peter Cronan for the Southern District of New York
[jwp-video n=”1″] Under a prior agreement, a trio of amendments are in order, along with potential side-by-side counterproposals from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell or a senator of his
[jwp-video n=”1″] The Friday joint statement made the same point that although Treasury and the Fed have announced creation of these emergency lending facilities, they have not yet begun lending
For the next coronavirus relief legislation, they called for $3 billion to go to the Agriculture Department to buy seafood products and another $1 billion for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Airlines are losing between $350 million and $400 million “every single day of the week” and when they do recover, he said, “the industry will emerge a shadow of what it was on March 1 of this year.”
[jwp-video n=”1″] Democrats agree that state and local aid should stem from coronavirus needs, but their calculus includes sales and other state tax revenues lost because of the pandemic.
[jwp-video n=”1″] The leaders are under pressure to act soon. One of the four panel members, Rep.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Meanwhile, the Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a Wednesday hearing on nominations.
In the first round, just 4 percent of the authorized applications asked for more than $1 million, but they scooped up 45 percent of the forgivable loan program’s funds, according to SBA data.
[jwp-video n=”1″] For context, with more than 60,000 COVID-19-related deaths, more American have now died from the coronavirus than U.S. servicemembers in the Vietnam War.
[jwp-video n=”1″] It’s not clear how long it would take Congress to agree on a distribution formula, which can raise a host of fairness questions.
On April 1, the California Democrat convened a press call indicating that she’d like to include the House’s five-year $760 billion infrastructure spending plan in the relief bill after the roughly $2 trillion
[jwp-video n=”1″] Democrats weren’t about to give up their leverage on other priorities so easily, however, and wound up securing aid for smaller businesses in low-income areas and more money
[jwp-video n=”1″] Speaker Nancy Pelosi has her own wish list that includes extending enhanced unemployment insurance benefits past their current July 31 expiration, and another round of tax
[jwp-video n=”1″] ‘Interim’ bill details The legislation would provide $310 billion to restart the Small Business Administration’s so-called Paycheck Protection Program, which ran out of money
[jwp-video n=”1″] While there wouldn’t be a new injection of direct aid to state and local governments, Schumer said the emerging legislation would include language to allow more flexibility
[jwp-video n=”1″] Mnuchin, however, said it was not and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., assured GOP senators on an afternoon conference call that state and local relief wouldn
Agricultural-related loans accounted for just over 1 percent of all loans in the program, according to SBA records.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Important meeting McConnell said he wanted to lure Walker into public service the first time he met him two decades ago, but there was an issue: “He still had to graduate from
[jwp-video n=”1″] The Trump administration and congressional Republicans want to boost the initial funding round from $349 billion to $600 billion.