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</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., outlined the major elements of the bill Republicans are drafting, including expanded federal relief to small businesses.
</p> [House may not return to session until third coronavirus response bill is ready]</p> In the meantime, it doesn’t seem to matter that most lawmakers are home in their districts instead of working
</p> “When you see that there are industries getting bailouts, we’re not even looking for bailouts,” he added. “We’re looking to be made whole.”
</p> Trump is expected to sign the bill.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., started Wednesday’s Senate session by announcing that he would support a coronavirus response bill championed by Democrats and passed by the House despite “imperfections
</p> Texas Republican Sen.
</p> The former prosecutor said he would have assumed that “judges, no matter who appointed them … had some idea of what the courtroom was like.”</p> Sen.
</p> Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman John Barrasso, R-Wyo., wants congressional relief efforts to include his bill (S 2302), which would authorize $287 billion in spending on roads and bridges
Cotton said Monday the House bill couldn’t pass the Senate as currently drafted, though that was before changes were unveiled late Monday.</p> Sen.
</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> It wasn’t immediately clear checks could be sent that quickly, however.
</p> Now the ball is in Senate Majority Leader McConnell’s court, and the Kentucky Republican said his plan for the House bill is simply to “pass it.”
</p> The passage of a bill by voice vote that would revive and extend surveillance powers — including those under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — until the end of May gives lawmakers breathing
</p> While Hoyer mentioned waiting until a third bill is ready, the Maryland Democrat did not rule out calling the House back sooner for other reasons, a Hoyer aide said.
</p> The California Democrat missed the early Saturday morning House vote on a coronavirus stimulus bill after being hospitalized Friday night.
</p> The House still needs to pass what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin described as a “technical correction” to the economic stimulus bill that was passed in the early hours of Saturday morning.
</p> The provision in the bill would exempt Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries from work and training requirements they might not be able to meet in those areas.
</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> Republicans had denounced the initial Democratic bill as unworkable and too burdensome on businesses.
</p> Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., delivered a statement around 2 p.m. suggesting Democrats were ready to bring their own bill to the floor later Friday even if no deal materializes.
</p> Our photojournalists show how the Capitol tried to deal with the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak both in the Capitol complex and nationwide.
</p> [Negotiators tweak coronavirus bill ahead of House vote]</p> Scott and Sen.