Leader of the Senate majority Mitch McConnell
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McConnell’s statements underscore that Congress is unlikely to get a proposal to increase stimulus controls President Trump
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The House passed a bill Monday to increase the amount of stimulus checks included in a recent $ 2.3 trillion package, but McConnell said Wednesday that the Senate would not pass an independent bill on checks.
“The Senate will not divide the three issues that President Trump related just because Democrats are afraid to deal with two of them. The Senate will not be intimidated into throwing more money borrowed into the hands of wealthy Democratic friends who don’t need help,” he said. McConnell from the Senate floor.
McConnell argued that the House-approved bill “does not conform to what President Trump has suggested” and “has no realistic way to pass the Senate quickly.”
McConnell and Sen. Pat Toomey
Patrick (Pat) Joseph Toomey The government used the Patriot Act to gather records of website visitors in 2019 The appeals court rules that the massive collection of phone data from the illegal NSA Dunford is removed from consideration to chair the MORE coronavirus monitoring panel (R-Pa.) He blocked the House bill on the Senate floor Wednesday. McConnell also blocked him twice on Tuesday.
Instead, the Republican Party leader points to a bill introduced on Tuesday that links an increase in $ 600 stimulus controls to the revocation of a shield of responsibility used by tech companies and a commission to review the 2020 elections
“To make sure the president was comfortable signing the bill, the Senate pledged to initiate a process that would combine three of the president’s priorities … Three of the president’s priorities in a Senate process,” he said. dir McConnell.
Trump, in his statement on signing the $ 2.3 billion deal that included $ 900 billion for coronavirus relief, said the Senate “would begin the process for a vote to increase checks on $ 2,000, repeal section 230 and start an investigation into election fraud. “
But this bill, Democrats argue, cannot be passed by the Senate because it would have the support of Democrats, who have said they would unanimously support the bill passed by the House.
“At the very least, the Senate deserves a chance to vote up or down on the increase in individual payments to the American people,” the Senate minority leader said Charles Schumer
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And if the Senate approves any bill other than the language that the House has already passed, it would require legislation to bounce back in the House and pass. The House has left the city until Sunday, when the 117th Congress begins.
If Congress fails the Sunday noon deadline, it will have to start again.
“There is no other game in town other than the house bill,” Schumer said. “Any amendment to the House bill cannot become law before this Congress is over. It’s a way to kill, to kill the bill.”
Updated at 4:03 p.m.