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Coronavirus relief package includes broadband money for low-income, jobless
The deal also includes $1 billion for broadband on tribal lands and $300 million for rural broadband deployment.
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The deal also includes $1 billion for broadband on tribal lands and $300 million for rural broadband deployment.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Under the House procedural maneuver, adoption of the rule for floor debate on the big spending package would automatically send the new stopgap bill to the Senate, which would
[jwp-video n=”1″] The commission was created to study the removal and replacement of Lee this summer and had sought a replacement since July, when it voted that it was time for Lee to go.
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Congress did not reach an agreement to reauthorize the highway bill in time for the Oct. 1 deadline, opting to extend the current law through most of 2021.
Congressional leaders on Sunday night reached agreement on a massive pandemic rescue measure that will be attached to a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.
The pandemic-battered transportation industry would get $45 billion, including $15 billion for airlines, $14 billion for mass transit, $10 billion for state highways and $1 billion for Amtrak.
If the Fed lending deal holds, lawmakers could clear a nearly $1 trillion COVID-19 aid package as well as the underlying $1.4 trillion fiscal 2021 appropriations bill before stopgap funding for federal
[jwp-video n=”1″] Lindsey McPherson contributed to this report.
The earliest the House would vote on the legislation is Sunday at 1 p.m., he announced.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Paul M. Krawzak, Niels Lesniewski , Lindsey McPherson and Jennifer Shutt contributed to this report.
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Lawmakers will convene in the House chamber at precisely 1 p.m., as prescribed by federal law, with the vice president presiding.
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[jwp-video n=”1″] Throughout the day negotiators struck an optimistic tone while acknowledging the clock was working against them.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Paul M. Krawzak and Doug Sword contributed to this report.
[jwp-video n=”1″] The dam had begun to break on Monday, with Republican senators, including Roy Blunt of Missouri, Rob Portman of Ohio and John Thune of South Dakota noting that Biden and Vice
R-Miss., the chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, are urging party leaders to include the funding in an upcoming omnibus spending package for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1,
Congressional leaders late Tuesday said they were close to locking down agreements on a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending package and a coronavirus relief bill that could deliver up to $1 trillion in additional
[jwp-video n=”1″] Perdue and Loeffler have yet to acknowledge his victory, but they have nevertheless stuck to the message that they are the last line of defense against Demcocratic majority