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Relief Plan Includes Payments, Jobless Benefits: Congress Update

Virus Aid Includes $17 Billion for Airlines: Congress Update
Bloomberg
12/16/2020
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Pelosi And McConnell Fan Stimulus Hopes With 2020 Clock Running Out
(Bloomberg) Congressional leaders are still haggling over the final details of nearly $900 billion in coronavirus aid as staff members try to write the legislative language needed for House and Senate votes this week.
If the aid deal, combined with a spending bill needed to fund the government, isn’t ready to get a vote in both chambers by Friday, another stopgap measure will be needed to avert a partial government shutdown after midnight Friday.
People briefed on the negotiations say the draft of the plan includes $600 in payments for individuals, $300-per-week in supplemental unemployment insurance payments and aid for small businesses, but it omits aid to state and local governments and lawsuit liability protection. It also includes roughly $17 billion for airlines. ....

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Vote on Relief Bill Could Slip to Weekend: Congress Update

Virus Aid Includes $17 Billion for Airlines: Congress Update
Bloomberg
12/16/2020
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Pelosi And McConnell Fan Stimulus Hopes With 2020 Clock Running Out
(Bloomberg) Congressional leaders are still haggling over the final details of nearly $900 billion in coronavirus aid as staff members try to write the legislative language needed for House and Senate votes this week.
If the aid deal, combined with a spending bill needed to fund the government, isn’t ready to get a vote in both chambers by Friday, another stopgap measure will be needed to avert a partial government shutdown after midnight Friday.
People briefed on the negotiations say the draft of the plan includes $600 in payments for individuals, $300-per-week in supplemental unemployment insurance payments and aid for small businesses, but it omits aid to state and local governments and lawsuit liability protection. It also includes roughly $17 billion for airlines. ....

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Leaders Close In on Aid Deal Below $900 Billion: Congress Update

Virus Aid Includes $17 Billion for Airlines: Congress Update
Bloomberg
12/16/2020
© Bloomberg
Pelosi And McConnell Fan Stimulus Hopes With 2020 Clock Running Out
(Bloomberg) Congressional leaders are still haggling over the final details of nearly $900 billion in coronavirus aid as staff members try to write the legislative language needed for House and Senate votes this week.
If the aid deal, combined with a spending bill needed to fund the government, isn’t ready to get a vote in both chambers by Friday, another stopgap measure will be needed to avert a partial government shutdown after midnight Friday.
People briefed on the negotiations say the draft of the plan includes $600 in payments for individuals, $300-per-week in supplemental unemployment insurance payments and aid for small businesses, but it omits aid to state and local governments and lawsuit liability protection. It also includes roughly $17 billion for airlines. ....

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McConnell Tied Deal to Georgia Runoff Races: Congress Update

Virus Aid Includes $17 Billion for Airlines: Congress Update
Bloomberg
12/16/2020
© Bloomberg
Pelosi And McConnell Fan Stimulus Hopes With 2020 Clock Running Out
(Bloomberg) Congressional leaders are still haggling over the final details of nearly $900 billion in coronavirus aid as staff members try to write the legislative language needed for House and Senate votes this week.
If the aid deal, combined with a spending bill needed to fund the government, isn’t ready to get a vote in both chambers by Friday, another stopgap measure will be needed to avert a partial government shutdown after midnight Friday.
People briefed on the negotiations say the draft of the plan includes $600 in payments for individuals, $300-per-week in supplemental unemployment insurance payments and aid for small businesses, but it omits aid to state and local governments and lawsuit liability protection. It also includes roughly $17 billion for airlines. ....

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