Posted on 04/27/2020 1:31:41 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Monday that the Senate will return to the Capitol next week — and he outlined GOP priorities for a fifth coronavirus relief bill.
“Senators will return to Washington D.C. one week from today. We will modify routines in ways that are smart and safe, but we will honor our constitutional duty to the American people and conduct critical business in person," McConnell said in a statement.
"If it is essential for doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, truck drivers, grocery-store workers, and many other brave Americans to keep carefully manning their own duty stations, then it is essential for Senators to carefully man ours and support them," he added.
That means the Senate will return on Monday, May 4. The House has not said when it will come back, though House Democrats have said it will not be before May 4.
McConnell hinted that Republicans could try to include language to help shield businesses from lawsuits as states lay the groundwork for starting to reopen shuttered parts of the economy.
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I want to see the mom and pop small businesses bailed out, not just paychecks. They didn’t lose their business or their markets, the government made them shut down. Why should they lose their life’s work? Don’t know to what extent there would be insurance for this.
Even better if they stayed away and the FedGov had to shut down for a while.
And each one of these bills is another opportunity for the Rats to load them up with pork and their favorite agenda items like voting by mail and “social justice” and green new deal programs.
They are drooling at the prospect.
Republicans are once again proving that they’re the stupid party.
We are screwed.
Screw that. Start approving Judges again, and kick Miss Lindsey’s ass into gear on those hearings he’s been promising for the past 16 months, ever since he’s been the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
Just give everyone $100,000 and call it a day. At least that might stop the deflationary depression which is just around the corner.
Yes, there have been a number of articles here on FR where Nancy promotes mail-in voting, otherwise known as massive, over the top rat fraud.
how many Senators paid/worked/knew very early
of this Atrocity ... and its illegal funding?
and when?
they are culpable from the sedition beforehand
to the obstruction during, to the
viral release to ruin this ELECTED PRESIDENT’s term.
You don’t really believe any of that would pass in the Senate and get the President’s signature, do you?
And what, half is going towards scams.
Trust me, the mafia and and other organized groups will make a fortune off of this
Don’t worry. The president would veto such a bill.
It’s not even “our money” anymore. It’s just play money created out of thin air with some keystrokes by Messrs. Mnuchin and Powell, with a nod from our ‘leaders’ who don’t seem to have a clue to the damage they’re doing.
Our leaders are idiots.
The relief we need? OPEN UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They aren't idiots, they are smart enough to know that most Americans are idiots.
Just what we need — more handouts financed by fiat money printed by the Federal Reserve Board.
If there are any real conservatives in government anymore, they should be fiercely fighting against further spending. Let us all just grow our way out of this.
You are right. Our leaders are self serving jerks with above moron level intelligence.
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