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Senate passes emergency $2t relief bill 96-0
fox news | 3/25/2020 | mitch mcconnell

Posted on 03/25/2020 8:49:11 PM PDT by SteveH

mitch mcconnell on tv just now

senate passes emergency $2t relief bill 100-0

with some snarky reporters biting his ankles about pelosi's alleged lack of happiness


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Kentucky; US: New York
KEYWORDS: botox; california; charlesschumer; chuckschumer; coronavirus; kentucky; mitchmcconnell; nancypelosi; newyork; nolink; pelosi; sanfrancisco; sanfrannan; schumer; senate; stimulus; upchuckschumer
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To: JoSixChip

send me a link to what you are reading


81 posted on 03/25/2020 9:30:12 PM PDT by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

> Not fixed. The pandemonium this will create for small business is immeasurable.

The theory expressed by (R) senators is that it’s not perfect but that it is expected that most people would prefer real work over quitting for a relatively short term modest pay raise.

one thing i would like to know is what will happen to the trump hotel chain business. marriott business is reportedly down 75% or maybe even 90%, i forget which.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/24/marriott-coronavirus-worse-than-911-and-financial-crisis-combined.html

i imagine trump hotel business would be affected the same if not worse since the trump brand is high end so people in a mood to save money can always choose a cheaper hotel. that means that the entire trump organization is left to hang, and they are already burning precious capital if they have not already started laying off much of their work force. if i were in charge of the trump properties, i would file an immediate lawsuit once the bill is signed. the covid-19 emergency is not trump’s employees fault no more than it is the fault of any other USA hotel employee who is expected to get a break from this bill.


82 posted on 03/25/2020 9:30:17 PM PDT by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: calljack

I loaded it up under three different PCs/laptops with three different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Opera), and the text you listed isn’t there.


83 posted on 03/25/2020 9:30:47 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: SteveH

Bill passes, Dow/S&P/NASDAQ future drop.


84 posted on 03/25/2020 9:31:18 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: SteveH

All good.


85 posted on 03/25/2020 9:31:22 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: SteveH

No Dem ‘no’ votes, so Nancy probably has agreed to get it passed on Thursday.

If she delays it or tries to modify it, the fall-out will be massive.


86 posted on 03/25/2020 9:31:30 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Barnacle

Steve,

I don’t believe all 100 million pay federal income tax. Many on the lower end, with a few children or more pay no federal tax. So I bet the cost to actual tax payers would be much higher.


87 posted on 03/25/2020 9:31:37 PM PDT by Beatthedrum
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To: calljack

What if the public health emergency is lifted by POTUS weeks or months before the election? Then this should no longer apply.


88 posted on 03/25/2020 9:32:06 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Democratus Partitus Delendus Est)
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To: nevermorelenore

I think so.
If this is THE bill, the site has search capability. I entered “vote”, “ballot” and “absentee” and got nada.

https://files.taxfoundation.org/20200325223111/FINAL-FINAL-CARES-ACT.

Dear Lord, I hope they removed ALL the election stuff.
Tatt


89 posted on 03/25/2020 9:32:18 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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To: calljack

I don’t know what you are looking at. But the document you linked, at page 830:

830
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(B)

EMERGENCY

DESIGNATION.—The

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amount provided by this paragraph is des-

3

ignated by the Congress as being for an emer-

4

gency

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251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and

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Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

requirement

pursuant

to

section


90 posted on 03/25/2020 9:32:27 PM PDT by JoSixChip (I no longer support this government)
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To: SteveH

fwiw, the senator who spoke after mcconnell indicated that many senators felt that there were certain aspects of the bill that demanded revisiting at some time in the near future to correct some problems with it. whether or not this will actually happen might be problematic to determine with certainty.


91 posted on 03/25/2020 9:33:04 PM PDT by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: JoSixChip

Just reading various tweets about it...

Howard University gets $13,000,000

$75M for NPR PBS


92 posted on 03/25/2020 9:33:15 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: nevermorelenore

In CA that has already been in effect for several years. The GOP was asleep at the wheel, but they can still catch up.


93 posted on 03/25/2020 9:33:37 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Democratus Partitus Delendus Est)
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To: madison10

The House has a choice. It can approve the Senate bill by acclamation or elect to call back all of its members to draft their own bill and then pass it. The House and Senate bills would then have to be reconciled thru a joint committee of both bodies and be put to a vote again. This could take weeks.

Odds are the House will approve thru voice vote.


94 posted on 03/25/2020 9:33:43 PM PDT by kabar
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To: silverleaf

Kill it. or let Trump kill it. It’s bullshit. Stop it now, go back to work and quit pussing out. We took Guadalcanal, the Marshalls, the Philippines and IWO JIMA. Screw this shit. The US better grow a set of nuts.


95 posted on 03/25/2020 9:33:46 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: calljack

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/820759545/read-2-trillion-coronavirus-relief-bill


96 posted on 03/25/2020 9:34:05 PM PDT by JoSixChip (I no longer support this government)
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To: thesearethetimes...

Excerpt with link -

On Wednesday evening, the Senate passed an updated version of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The bill builds upon earlier versions of the CARES Act and is intended to be a third round of federal government support in the wake of the coronavirus public health crisis and associated economic fallout, succeeding the $8.3 billion in public health support passed two weeks ago and the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. It is the product of negotiations between Democrats and Republicans for a bipartisan response to the crisis.


97 posted on 03/25/2020 9:34:11 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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To: calljack
And here's page 830 of the final document you linked to on NPR.

Page 830

(B) EMERGENCY DESIGNATION - The amount provided by this paragraph is designated by Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
98 posted on 03/25/2020 9:35:01 PM PDT by grateful
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To: calljack

Was this in her bill or the senate bill tonight. I saw people quoting this section earlier in the day, before the senate bill was even brought to the floor

If it’s in this bill, this is the key part “may not put any limit on how many voted and sealed absentee ballots any designated person can return to the post office, a
ballot drop off location, tribally designated
building, or election office.”

That opens the door to someone creating a 100 ballots if they want and dropping them into the system . Bye bye GOP


99 posted on 03/25/2020 9:35:41 PM PDT by Beatthedrum
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To: Jane Long

Disappointing for sure. But $75M is chump change compared to the size of this monster.


100 posted on 03/25/2020 9:36:00 PM PDT by JoSixChip (I no longer support this government)
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