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The House Votes to Increase Federal Payments
The House voted to increase the second round of federal direct payments to $2,000 as Democrats embrace President Donald Trump’s calls to put more money in Americans’ pockets.The measure would boost the stimulus checks in the year-end coronavirus relief and government funding package to $2,000 from $600.
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December 28, 2020
On Monday night, the House voted to increase COVID-19 relief checks to $2,000.
This met President Trump’s demand for bigger payments and it sends the bill to the GOP-controlled senate.
Democrats led with 275-134, their majority favoring the additional assistance and dozens of Republicans joined in approval.
Congress had previously settled on smaller $600 payments in a compromise relief bill.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared, “Republicans have a choice: Vote for this legislation or vote to deny the American people.”
The package the president signed into law has two parts: $900 billion in COVID-19 aid and $1.4 trillion to fund government agencies.
(Photo : Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) US President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit. on December 08, 2020 in Washington, DC.
The House of Representatives moved to override President Donald Trump s veto of a defense bill, setting the stage for the first-ever veto override in the Trump presidency.
House members voted 322-87 to override the veto, which is well above the two-thirds required by law, reported The Associated Press.
The defense bill will now head to the Senate for the chamber s veto override attempt. It could become law only if the Senate also votes to override Trump s veto. USA Today reported that the bill dies if only the House overrides it.
What a year! Pandemic, civic unrest, national elections 2020 has been a year of tumult that can t be done with soon enough. But when it comes to drug policy, it wasn t all bad; in fact, a lot of it was pretty darned good. Some of it however was quite tragic Here s our year-end round up of the biggest drug policy stories of the year.
Update: The 2020 top ten list now goes to eleven, with Congress removing the drug conviction question from the federal financial aid for college form. See below.
The Pandemic
Just as it has infiltrated just about every aspect of American life, the coronavirus pandemic has been felt in the world of drugs and drug policy. Social distancing requirements early in the pandemic, precisely at the time drug reform initiative campaigns were typically in the midst of signature-gathering drives proved particularly lethal to marijuana legalization efforts in the Heartland as initiative campaigns in Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Oklahoma all suc
Drugs and the Year from Hell: The Top 10 Domestic Drug Policy Stories of 2020 [FEATURE] stopthedrugwar.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stopthedrugwar.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.