Congress · 116th Congress
Democrats offer $494 billion transport bill targeting economy, climate
[jwp-video n=”1″] By changing the matching formulas, the bill mirrors elements of one passed by the House on May 15.
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[jwp-video n=”1″] By changing the matching formulas, the bill mirrors elements of one passed by the House on May 15.
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[jwp-video n=”1″] The bill would also dip into the Treasury’s General Fund to pay for highways and airports.
[jwp-video n=”1″] One provision would make the child tax credit fully refundable, increasing it from $2,000 to $3,000 for six years and boosting it to $3,600 for children under 6 years old.
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
The roughly $2 trillion spending bill passed in March included $61 billion for the airline industry, $10 billion for airports, $25 billion for transit and $1 billion for Amtrak.
[jwp-video n=”1″] There was little sympathy for health care workers or those standing at fast-moving lines at the meat processing plants that have become virus hot spots.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi says cities and states will need more help soon, and even $1 trillion might not cover the cost.
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Just after 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, McConnell characterized the proposal as a “wartime level of investment into our nation.”
[jwp-video n=”1″] In a letter to House Democrats late Thursday, Pelosi wrote that the measure being negotiated would provide 14 days of paid emergency leave and up to three months of paid family
A Party Divided: GOP Leaders Split on Supporting Trump [jwp-video n=”1″] “There is no doubt that there is a debate that’s taking place inside the Republican Party about who they are
[IMGCAP(1)] During the current economic stimulus dispute, House Democrats objections to a Senate agreement that taxpayers should fund research on clinical effectiveness, rather than cost effectiveness
And they say that Republicans managed to swing the Clinton surplus $1 trillion in the wrong direction, into record deficits, combined with unprecedented foreign borrowing. Or take energy policy.