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Jobless claims soar as House considers added benefits
</p> Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the House will take up the bill Friday.
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</p> Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the House will take up the bill Friday.
</p> The Connecticut lawmaker has introduced a bill aimed at ensuring adequate medical personnel and legal authority on cruise ships. Rep.
</p> [Thursday likely earliest stimulus bill gets to Trump’s desk]</p> Of those, the largest chunk — $3.8 billion — would go to the Defense Health Program, which provides medical care to Defense Department
</p> “Thanks to the unity and insistence of Senate and House Democrats, the bill has moved a great deal closer to America’s workers,” the California Democrat said in a statement.
</p> The $100 billion for hospitals in the bill (S 3548) — almost a third of the package — would provide reimbursement to cover health care expenses and lost revenue due to the outbreak of COVID-19.
</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> CDC recommends that asymptomatic people with a risk of developing COVID-19 self-isolate.
</p> [Health industry scrambles for funding in third coronavirus bill]</p> Just a day earlier, Pelosi had introduced a competing House bill that would offer more than $2.5 trillion to counter the pain
That’s up from $1,200, $2,400 and $500 in the Senate GOP bill.</p> The same income thresholds would apply — $75,000 for individuals and $150,000 for joint filer.
</p> Trump said he hoped the drug, hydroxychloroquine, would be effective in treating the virus that has been labeled a worldwide pandemic.
</p> [Revised coronavirus aid bill headed to Senate, finally]</p> “Florida is acutely focused on eliminating unnecessary barriers on our health care providers who are on the front lines serving our communities
</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> Democrats’ wish list House Democrats’ bill is likely to include items Pelosi and Schumer outlined in a list of demands released over the weekend.
</p> Democrats panned the idea of industry-specific relief.
</p> Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos arrives to testify to the Senate Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing on the FY2021 budget for the
President Donald Trump signed the emergency supplemental spending bill funding the response to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, making $8.3 billion in new federal assistance available to government health
</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> Across the border from U.S. ports of entry, squalid tent cities have arisen in Mexican towns where migrants await court hearings for months at a time and are vulnerable to
</p> Collins last year introduced a bill (S 181) that would direct the EPA to work with other agencies to create a national mercury monitoring program.
This “pre-policy” forecast is still above the Congressional Budget Office’s 2.2 percent projection for 2020, as longtime Senate GOP budget aide Bill Hoagland notes.
</p> “The president made a great choice when he picked Bill Barr to be the attorney general, and I think the president should listen to his advice,” the Kentucky Republican said in a Fox News interview