Deal gets done
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. The House of Representatives on Friday overwhelmingly approved a more than $2 trillion package to combat thepandemic and send economic relief to workers and businesses squeezed by restrictions meant to stop the outbreak’s spread.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., had furiously objected to a simple voice vote that would have required only a minimal number of lawmakers to travel. Massie, as part of his push, wanted to ensure there is a quorum, which would require half of the members to show up on Capitol Hill., hundreds of lawmakers were summoned to Washington D.C. Thursday night and Friday morning from coronavirus-ravaged communities in New York, California and elsewhere.
Brown ruled that an insufficient number of lawmakers stood in support of a roll call vote. But Massie pressed on.“A quorum is present and the motion is adopted,” Brown ruled, to applause. “We're going to help Americans through this," McCarthy said. "We're going to do this together and in the end, we are going to be healthier, stronger and more united than ever before, because as Americans, that's who we are.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., started her impassioned floor speech by noting 13 people died in one day at Queen’s Elmhurst Hospital and medical professionals still don’t have enough ventilators and personal protection equipment. “No more billion-dollar bailouts for things that are unrelated. No more policies that are long-standing for a short-standing issue that needs our critical attention,” Perry said.
Republicans, who are trying hard to flip the freshman rep’s seat in November, immediately pounced on the outburst as a “meltdown.” The legislation also establishes a $454 billion program for guaranteed, subsidized loans to larger industries in hopes of leveraging up to $4.5 trillion in lending to distressed businesses, states, and municipalities. All would be up to the Treasury Department's discretion, though businesses controlled by Trump or immediate family members and by members of Congress would be ineligible.
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