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</p> Speaking on the floor ahead of the vote on his amendment, Daines said that the changes to surveillance authorities contained in the base bill already were not sufficient.
</p> [DOT eases airport service mandates for struggling airlines]</p> “To date, airlines, airports, and federal agencies have implemented inconsistent measures to thwart the spread of the novel coronavirus
</p> The authorization could be updated as procedural or other unexpected votes arise during the session.</p> Members able and willing to vote in person on their own behalf could still do so.
</p> Congress already gave the prisons, in the prior relief bill, an extra $100 million for similar COVID-19 costs.
</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> The bill would also dip into the Treasury’s General Fund to pay for highways and airports.
</p> The bill contains provisions allowing immigrant physicians engaged in U.S. work related to COVID-19 to bypass a long wait for a green card.
</p> [Pent-up tax demands could resurface in House Democrats’ aid bill]</p> There are other generous provisions for families included in the Democrats’ package as well.
</p> “The staggering scale of this crisis demands extraordinary urgency, and therefore, the House will be proceeding with our vote on the [relief bill] on Friday,” several House committee leaders wrote
</p> And when other state and local related aid is included, such as money for Medicaid, education, housing and highways, the total easily tops $1 trillion.</p> Local officials praised the bill.
</p> The more than $3 trillion bill released Tuesday is expected to go to the House floor on Friday.
Hoyer told reporters Tuesday of the coronavirus relief bill.
</p> Congress established the position to oversee the Treasury Department’s handling of the bailout funds included in March’s massive coronavirus response bill.
</p> That panel is led by Majority Whip James E. Clyburn of South Carolina and Minority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana.
</p> Justice Neil M.
</p> More than 20 million people filed for unemployment in April.
</p> House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot L.
</p> “We’ve got a bit of a doughnut hole in the CARES Act,” said North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis, using the acronym for the third rescue bill. “’I’m worried about some [businesses] that are in between
</p> Not everything in the Democrats’ bill will be anathema to Republicans.
</p> Rather, this is the week that the Senate is expected to clear a bill to revive and overhaul some surveillance authorities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
</p> The House points out that a House-passed bill would strengthen existing ethics laws with more disclosure and prohibit contracts between the government and the president — and points to other similar