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Staffers for Rep. Melanie Stansbury vote to unionize
Melanie Stansbury’s congressional office voted to form a union, 12-1.
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Health care budget bill to face open-ended ‘vote-a-rama’
The original fiscal 2022 budget resolution provided “instructions” to the Senate Finance panel that its part of the bill must lower deficits by at least $1 billion over a decade.
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Minimum wage push spices up restaurant aid debate
An estimated 1 million workers have left the restaurant industry since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, and higher wages will be required to bring them back, said Saru Jayaraman, president of
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Explaining reconciliation and the social issues at stake, with Mary C. Curtis
[jwp-video n=”1″] Curtis: Yeah, well, let’s talk about that. Progressives, particularly, want the infrastructure and reconciliation bills linked. Can you explain why?
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Yarmuth sees next budget reconciliation process starting in July
[jwp-video n=”1″] While reconciliation is a tempting tool for the majority party to use in a polarized Congress, it does come with drawbacks.
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Senate passes massive COVID-19 relief bill, sending changes back to House
veterans time to adjust to the new policy and allow for potential further bipartisan legislation, the Moran-Carper amendment would postpone the change to allow for a rulemaking process to begin Oct. 1
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Dueling unemployment proposals delay Senate votes on aid bill
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday morning he believes just 9 percent of the package addresses “the fight against the virus itself” and only 1 percent is geared toward vaccine research
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Pelosi’s virus relief win shows she can keep her majority together
After party moderates pressured Pelosi to narrow that measure and she brought up a $2.2 trillion version on Oct. 1, 18 Democrats still joined Republicans in opposition.
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Pension funding, COBRA coverage survive aid bill’s ‘Byrd bath’
[jwp-video n=”1″] The second provision would provide subsidies to make health insurance more affordable under the federal law known as COBRA, which offers continuing employer-sponsored coverage
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Medicare fixes, Amtrak boost in draft Senate aid package
[jwp-video n=”1″] White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki also suggested there would be other opportunities to pass minimum wage legislation, while not ruling out some kind of budget compromise
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Senate parliamentarian nixes minimum wage boost in aid package
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Senate parliamentarian hears arguments on coronavirus relief bill
[jwp-video n=”1″] MacDonough is expected to render a verdict later on Wednesday or Thursday, lawmakers and aides say.
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House Democrats prep changes to coronavirus relief package
[jwp-video n=”1″] In a face-off before Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, Democrats and Republicans will argue over whether the minimum wage increase to $15 over five years can meet
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Next phase of coronavirus relief bill sprint to start Monday
Budget Chairman John Yarmuth, D-Ky., has scheduled a 1 p.m. markup to staple together the reconciliation submissions from nine House authorizing committees before sending the measure onto its last
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CBO: Minimum wage boost would increase deficit, cost jobs
referee Sanders said he could not understand how the CBO could project large deficits when the agency’s 2019 estimate of similar legislation found the wage boost would increase deficits by less than $1
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Democrats clear path for filibuster-proof coronavirus relief bill
[jwp-video n=”1″] Minimum wage, state and local aid The wide-ranging Biden proposal includes raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour over five years, bumping up enhanced federal unemployment
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Nominee says SBA will do outreach to overlooked, underserved
However, an Oct. 1 report by the Government Accountability Office found a high risk for fraud in the program because of few safeguards as the SBA hurried to get the funds disbursed.
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Senate GOP laying amendment traps for budget debate
[jwp-video n=”1″] “We’ll be getting senators on the record about whether taxpayers should fund checks for illegal immigrants; whether Democrats should raise taxes on small businesses in the
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Relief bill starts to take shape as budget votes approach
[jwp-video n=”1″] A statement from incoming Senate Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., mentions action on shoring up multiemployer pension plans as being potentially part of the legislation
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Senate GOP group floats $618B pandemic relief plan ahead of Biden meeting
— President Biden (@POTUS) February 1, 2021 The Republican proposal matches Biden’s request in many respects when it comes to direct assistance in combating the pandemic.