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</p> [Colleagues and leaders remember John Lewis as a humble mentor, in addition to an icon] </p> Lewis walks down the House steps after a vote in December 2017.
</p> The decisions came on a pair of dueling amendments to the defense authorization bill, which the Senate may pass later this week.
</p> She dismissed the GOP’s overall $1 trillion target as “enough for about a third of our bill.” The House passed a nearly $3.5 trillion package in May.
</p> The trade association said Monday that it wants the provisions included in the Senate version of the next economic recovery bill with a goal of getting the language into a compromise version worked
</p> “Speed is tantamount for this,” she said.
</p> Still, the imperative is there, and perhaps even the contours of a deal.</p> On July 31, key provisions of the March aid bill know as the CARES Act are set to expire.
</p> The other bill would provide businesses with a refundable payroll tax credit for 50 percent of the cost of COVID-19 testing employees.
</p> A Senate-passed lands bill that would permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund will also get a vote Wednesday.
Lending facilities set up by the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department to avoid a coronavirus-related credit crunch have distributed about $14 billion out of $500 billion Congress approved in a March aid bill
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo) ‘Real life superhero’ Lewis in recent years also achieved pop culture status with the publication of a best-selling, three-part autobiographical graphic novel, “March
our gun violence bill in the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting.”
</p> House Democrats included the OSHA standard in a $3.5 trillion relief bill they passed in May.
</p> That still leaves around $130 billion available for new loans.
</p> Accordingly, Granger and all other Republicans on the panel voted against approving the bill, which passed only on the strength of the Democratic majority’s votes.
</p> “If we are serious about lifting up communities of color that have faced generations of inequalities, it starts by putting our money where our mouth is and passing this bill,” Senate Minority Whip
</p> House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter A.
</p> The House’s relief bill, which passed in May on a mostly party-line vote, would offer up to $6,000 in tax rebates per five-person household earning up to $150,000.
</p> McConnell said Tuesday the Senate’s latest coronavirus spending bill could be released “in the next week or two.”
</p> Takano’s bill would also task the National Institute of Standards and Technology, known as NIST, with establishing a testing framework for forensic algorithms that federal law enforcement agencies
</p> Logjams ahead The $3 trillion relief bill the House passed on May 15 is far more generous.