Eye on the senates endoftheyear legislative business. Good evening, david. Senators have a lot of work to do but not much time to do it. Two major funding bills sitting in limbo tonight and those senators hope to come to an agreement before the new senate is sworn in on sunday. Lets talk about covid19 relief. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell on the floor just hours ago announced he will move forward with a covid relief package that includes 2,000 direct payments, but theres a catch. Involving the president s wish list. Mcconnell says to get the 2,000 checks, democrats must also repeal section 230 of the Communications Decency act which protects Big Tech Companies who censor speech online. President trump says Companies Like twitter and facebook unfairly censor republican perspectives and have been for years. The majority leader also wants a bipartisan study examining the integrity and security of the 2020 president ial election. The senate is not going to split apart the three is
We are keeping an eye on the senates end of the year legislative business. Reporter centers have a lot of work to do but not much time to do it. Two major funding bills are in limbo and those senators hope to come to agreement before the new senate is sworn in sunday. Lets talk about covid19 relief. Reporter Mitch Mcconnell on the floor just hours ago announced he will move forward with the covid19 relief package that includes 2,000 direct payments but theres a catch involving the president s wishlist. Mcconnell says to get the 2,000 checks democrats must repeal section 230 of the Communications Decency act which protect Big Tech Companies who censor speech online, donald trump says company like twitter and facebook unfairly censor republican perspectives that have been for years. The majority leader wants a bipartisan study examining the integrity and security of the 2020 president ial election. The senate will not split the issues donald trump linked together just because democrats a