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Trump drops payroll tax cut, wants stimulus checks
[jwp-video n=”1″] It wasn’t immediately clear checks could be sent that quickly, however.
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Opportunity knocks for Congress during crisis
Yields on 30-year Treasury bonds are below 2 percent; 10-year rates have dropped below 1 percent. Lenders are willing to lose money after inflation to lock their money away safely for decades.
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Defense secretary: Army Corps can’t build hospitals overnight
[jwp-video n=”1″] At a press conference Tuesday, Trump said he had discussed the idea with Cuomo.
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Courts ask Congress for coronavirus response funds
[jwp-video n=”1″] The Western District of Washington was the first to close the courthouse and suspend trials and hearings and others have done likewise, while federal courts in West Virginia
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Supreme Court delays arguments for the first outbreak since Spanish flu
The Supreme Court had oral arguments set for March 23 through March 25, and then March 30 through April 1.
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House may not return to session until third coronavirus response bill is ready
[jwp-video n=”1″] A formal schedule update that Hoyer’s office sent Monday afternoon only announced that no votes would be held March 23, the date the House was scheduled to return from its
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Reporters get new guidelines as Hill coronavirus cases grow
[jwp-video n=”1″] Press restrictions Several Capitol press galleries sent letters to media members Monday asking them to take extra precautions when in the Capitol.
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Capitol Insiders Survey: Hill aides want to leave the Capitol
[jwp-video n=”1″] By contrast, half of the Republican respondents said Congress should proceed as normal, with 24 percent favoring a total shutdown and 20 percent preferring to work remotely
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Immigrants tested for coronavirus won’t be penalized applying for naturalization, USCIS says
[jwp-video n=”1″] Immigration advocates and Democratic lawmakers had been pushing for the Trump administration to suspend the public charge rule altogether because of the coronavirus pandemic
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Here are all the Capitol Hill coronavirus cases we know of so far
[jwp-video n=”1″] Members tested Despite tests not being widely available and often denied to individuals without more severe symptoms, some members of Congress have been tested after learning
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Revised coronavirus aid bill headed to Senate, finally
[jwp-video n=”1″] ‘It’s a big number’ Mnuchin said he planned to join Senate Republicans for the weekly policy lunch Tuesday to discuss the concerns further.
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Stimulus bill temporarily expands safety net for poor
Other provisions in the stimulus package would give the USDA nearly $1 billion in additional funding for major food programs, potentially increase monthly food stamp benefits and ease restrictions
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Coronavirus aid deal passed, delivered to Senate; Trump to sign
[jwp-video n=”1″] Republicans had denounced the initial Democratic bill as unworkable and too burdensome on businesses.
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White House, Democrats hung up on coronavirus stimulus
[jwp-video n=”1″] A notice to lawmakers from Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., preceded Pelosi’s comments, telling colleagues to be ready to vote Friday no matter the outcome.
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House gets new chance at court challenge of Trump’s wall construction, McGahn subpoena
[jwp-video n=”1″] In ruling against the House, the three-judge panel cited Supreme Court precedents about the right of lawmakers to bring lawsuits, and rejected the House argument that it suffered
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Campus Notebook: A rundown of Duncan Hunter’s transgressions
[jwp-video n=”1″] Hunter’s decision to resign bolstered Republican chances of holding on to the 50th District in Southern California, which President Donald Trump carried by 15 points in 2016
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House Democrats postpone caucus retreat over coronavirus concerns
House Democrats’ annual retreat that had been scheduled for April 1-3 in Philadelphia has been indefinitely postponed because of concerns about the coronavirus, the caucus announced Thursday.
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Coronavirus closes Capitol to tours
[jwp-video n=”1″] Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, called the decision to close the Capitol to the public “A really, really good idea.”