Just a few weeks remember?
I’m not sure there’s ever been an opposition party fighting with the party in power to help the party in power’s election prospects.
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This is at the State by State level, which is the only level that really could pass such legislation.
Someone needs to tell Mitch McConnell that then, considering it’s the entire reason he’s held up the next stimulus in the Senate for bloody months.
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Just curious, why would it take a State by State Level?
Didn’t congress already pass legislation resulting in the $600 federal unemployment?
Secondly, why couldn’t Congress go to the IRS (a Federal Agency) and provide a means for the IRS to provide a States with information on what 70% of 4th Quarter 2019 weakly average is for each worker,
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He’s talking about immunity to liability, not the unemployment.
On the subject of seventy percent, some federal office said that it would take Like two to eight months to roll out this seventy percent thing and since this is the feds we’re talking about, we both know that means eight months minimum.
Ahh… The liability thing. Roger. Thanks.
I just don’t buy the 2-8 months thing. The IRS already has the data and it’s historical. One team crunches the data to determine what 70 of income by week for data already in the system. A parallel team creates a lookup capability and for a state employment commission.
Google could produce a result in about 2 weeks. And just think if McConnell hadn’t been sitting on the legislation for 2 and half months it could already have been done with probably a 99.9% accuracy.
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70%? Why?
100% at a minimum, plus another stimulus check / bribe to placate the rightfully angry masses.
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Delaying action on UE and floating more stimulus checks with Trumps signature on the checks so they were closer to the election as a bribe is a different issue.
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As an explanation.
I feel that a Federal statutory cap on tort liability in regards to COVID-19 might not hold up in the Federal Courts on federalism grounds for small, single location employers. It probably would hold up for companies and corporations that operate across State lines.
But, of course, the most vulnerable companies to tort litigation are those small companies that probably would be denied protection by the Federal courts.
State by state statutes are far more likely to stand up to court challenges.
So did the GOP Senate caucus present their plan today?
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/27/senate-gop-coronavirus-relief-package-382502
A Google search on my part came up only with this.
(CNN)Senate Republicans on Monday formally unveiled their roughly $1 trillion stimulus proposal, which includes a $400 cut in enhanced unemployment benefits, and will serve as an opening bid for bipartisan negotiations with Democrats while Congress scrambles to respond to the economic and public health crisis sparked by the coronavirus pandemic.
The proposal would cut enhanced federal unemployment benefits – set to expire at the end of this week – to $200, from the current level of $600, as states transition to implement a system designed to provide approximately 70% wage replacement for laid off workers.
McConnell has said that he hopes that in the next two to three weeks the Senate will be able to get the next coronavirus relief bill to the House.
To the house in 2 to 3 weeks… isn’t that when the checs were already supposed to in the mail?
All the while people are going to start getting evicted and the fed unemployment will be removed to people who desperately need it for weeks…
I stand by my comment: a ■■■■■■■■ made up statement.
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On the house side they are already dealing with problems that will arise in October.
A majority U.S. House of Representatives lawmakers signed a letter made public on Monday calling for a six-month extension of a $32 billion payroll aid program that they argue is crucial to keeping hundreds of thousands of aviation workers employed through March 31.
“Without an extension of the (payroll support program) before then, hundreds of thousands of airline workers will be fired or furloughed on October 1,” the lawmakers wrote. The letter, led by House Transportation Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio, was signed by 223 House members, including 195 Democrats and 28 Republicans.
The opposite of lollygagging senate republicans
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Why has the house failed to negotiate in good faith for 2.5 months?
2 billion to build the fbi a new building.
It’s of the utmost importance and yet for some reason McConnel can’t explain why it’s in there.
https://twitter.com/jamiedupree/status/1287877465721847808?s=19
The 1.75Bn to build a new FBI building was added in the last week as part of the infrastructure rebuilding package.
Try again.
In the covid relief bill.
Its because the buyer of the old building is another hotel chain.
