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Tensions flare on Senate floor as coronavirus bill derailed for second time by the Democrats

By Brooke Singman | Fox News


Chad Pergram reports tensions have exploded on the Senate floor as lawmakers try to reach a deal on a coronavirus aid package

Tensions flared on the Senate floor Monday as lawmakers viscerally clashed on camera over phase three of a coronavirus response package, with Democrats blocking Republican efforts to advance the massive stimulus bill for the second day in a row.

Leaving the legislation in limbo once more, the Senate stalled over the package Monday afternoon on a 49-46 vote. It needed 60 votes to advance.



Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., then stormed to the floor to accuse Democrats of "mindless obstruction" that could drag out any action for days. He said Democrats' list of demands keeps getting "longer and longer."

Democrats argue the more-than $1 trillion package did too much for large corporations and not enough for workers, but Republicans accuse them of playing politics and using the crisis as leverage to try and jam through unrelated political "wish list" items concerning climate change and more.

“The country is burning, and your side wants to play political games,” Senate Majority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., said shortly before the vote. “It is time to get this done. The American people expect us to act, they need action. We need to get this done for the American people.”

Thune slammed Democrats—specifically moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who just moments earlier said the bill was “weighted toward the Wall Street corporation side.”

“Here we are dilly-dallying around,” Thune said. “This bill is about workers, families, people out there hurting economically—we’re in a position to do something about it and it is high time that we did.”

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Emotions ran so high on the floor before the vote that at one point Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., implored colleagues to take a breath and focus on the work.

“We’re going to get this done today,” Durbin said. “Everyone take a breath. Everyone is emotional today, but we’re going to get this done. We have a job to do.”

The package first failed Sunday in the face of Democratic opposition. McConnell then called Monday for the re-do on the procedural vote to begin debate—to which Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., agreed. That vote failed, again, shortly afterward.

“Republicans understand that a national crisis calls for urgency and calls for bipartisanship,” McConnell said earlier. “It’s time for Democrats to stop playing politics and step up to the plate.

“We’re at war with no ammo,” he continued. “Democrats are talking about this as if it is some juicy political opportunity. This is not a juicy political opportunity.”

“This has got to stop and today’s the day it has to stop,” McConnell said. “The country is out of time.”

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, blasted Democrats as “disgraceful” for delaying further work on the legislation.

Schumer countered that Democrats are only “looking for oversight. If this federal government is making a big loan to someone, to a big company, we ought to know it and know the details immediately. The bill that was put on the floor by the Republican leader said no one would know a thing about those loans for six months, at least.”

The latest procedural vote failure leaves unclear whether ongoing negotiations will yield a workable compromise.

Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday, after returning to Washington, D.C., from recess, said House Democrats would roll out their own bill, again accusing Senate Republicans of putting corporations first in their proposed legislation.



“The Senate Republicans’ bill, as presented, put corporations first, not workers and families,” Pelosi said in a statement Monday. “Today, House Democrats will unveil a bill that takes responsibility for the health, wages and well-being of America’s workers: the Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act.”

Many Democrats had complained that the draft aid package did not go far enough to provide health care and unemployment aid for Americans, and failed to put restraints on a proposed $500 billion "slush fund" for corporations, saying the ban on corporate stock buy-backs are weak and the limits on executive pay would last only two years.

Officials put the price tag of the rescue package at nearly $1.4 trillion and said that with other measures from the Federal Reserve it could pump $2 trillion into the U.S. economy.

The draft legislation would provide payments of up to $1,200 per person. They would be phased down at adjusted gross income thresholds of $75,000 for individuals and $150,000 per couple. Additionally, there would be $500 payments for each child.

The amount is reduced to zero for single taxpayers with incomes exceeding $99,000 and $198,000 for joint filers.

Central to the package is as much as $350 billion for small businesses to keep making payroll while workers are forced to stay home, and billions in loans to airlines and other industries.

Senate Republicans, like McConnell and Thune, slammed Pelosi on Monday, claiming that she returned from recess and sabotaged all bipartisan efforts in the upper chamber.

“There was great bipartisan cooperation and then yesterday, the Speaker of the House showed up with an agenda,” Thune said. “And all of a sudden, it got taken over at the leadership level…and instead of helping American workers, we’re talking about the Green New Deal.”

But Durbin defended Pelosi, saying that it is clear that “she really does unnerve people on the other side.”

Durbin added that her intervention in negotiations “happens to be consistent with the bicameral system of government that we have.”

And Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said the original bill was not bipartisan, and that Democrats were not included in initial negotiations.

Meanwhile, Schumer, who said he was “hopeful” the Senate would get something done Monday, left the Senate floor to continue negotiations with the White House and Senate Republicans.

“We’re going to get this done today,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday. “Everybody is working very hard so we look forward to a big vote today.”

When asked when he expected to have a final agreement with both Senate Republicans and Democrats, Mnuchin said: “As fast as we can.”

But McConnell is likely to face a challenge in crossing the 60-vote hurdle of the procedural vote, as five key GOP senators are in self-quarantine.

On Sunday, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., announced he had tested positive for COVID-19, sending Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Mitt Romney, R-Utah, into self-quarantine after interacting with Paul throughout the weekend.

Paul, Lee, and Romney joined Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Cory Gardner, R-Co., in self-quarantine. Scott, out of an abundance of caution, put himself in quarantine after meeting with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. A member of Bolsonaro’s staff tested positive for the virus. Gardner went into self-quarantine on March 17 after interacting with a constituent who, also, later tested positive.

Under normal circumstances, the Senate breakdown is 53 Republicans and 47 senators who caucus with the Democrats. But with five Republican senators quarantined, the GOP barely has a majority in the upper chamber, at 48 Republican senators to 47 Democratic senators.

 

Nope. Wrong motive but proper outcome.
Cmon despicables, don't fail now.
Jam up those bail out bills. Jam up those stimulus pork deals.

You can't stop Trump, but you gotta keep trying.

 

Oh my...FOX News is starting to pull some shenanigans straight out of the Alinsky playbook, with this Title for the article...hehehehehehe.

 

Again all you give a fuck about is obfuscating the reality to attempt to put it all on the left. The right could not even get all of their people to vote for another massive corporate bail out being disguised as a bill to help the people. If they want to help the people they would have every vote bu just taking away the money that was being asked for for corporations and industries.

 

Didn't the number of infected double in Spain?

Fool, you take stupidity to a new level. Why don't you worry about the country you live in????

What are the fools in Spain doing? Because it's obviously not working....

 

I'm sure Moscow Mitch has the best interests of the American People at heart. Those will all the money already for sure.

 

This is one time that both the left & the right need to get their shit together and do it sooner than later, the US, in my opinion, is already falling more behind on getting whatever kind of a grip on this whole thing that can be got, and I call bullshit. Time to forget grudges and figure this thing out being that our country is supposed to be the greatest country and strong and set an example that others will look up to. But we are slacking. This virus shouldn't be as bad as it is in the US and shouldn't be getting worse than it is. I blame politics, politicians, people who won't stay inside that don't have a real legitimate reason for being outside playing around not heeding the fact that they are one of the biggest reasons for spreading this virus further. And acting like it doesn't even exist. Media needs to get their shit together too.I'm finished now I think.

 

People need to stay at home and have sex and play board games. I think.

 

This bull shit the dumbocrates are pulling will come back to bite their asses come November.

 

Republicans need to agree to restrictions on the corporate money or it will all go to stock buy backs and corporate big wigs. Dips and Rips need to work this out soon. Hope we get ride of them all in November!

 

I am a Trump supporter but at the beginning of all of this he said a lot of things that he couldn't back up like we have millions of test coming and that we have this under control and there is nothing to worry about, etc. as did the Democrats in what they are doing. It's a joint bullshit thing from both and like I said they need to put differences aside and fight later.

 

Pelosi and dems are playing politics while people die, so they can cram in pork barrel spending and write an election commercial
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Pelosi's coronavirus stimulus includes return of 'Obamaphones,' other unrelated items, GOP says​

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy reacts to Nancy Pelosi saying she is going to start from scratch and craft another coronavirus relief bill

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced her own emergency coronavirus stimulus bill on Monday, leading furious Republicans to argue that much of the proposal contained a progressive wishlist seemingly unrelated to the crisis -- including several provisions that amount to a resurrection of the notorious "Obamaphone" program, GOP officials said.

The bill proposed by Pelosi, D-Calif., additionally seeks to eliminate debt held by the U.S. Postal Service, require same-day voter registration, pay off $10,000 in student debt per person, mandate that airlines reduce their overall carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2050, and force federal agencies to explain to Congress how they are increasing their usage of "minority banks."

And, the legislation would provide for the automatic extension of nonimmigrant visas and restrict colleges from providing information about citizenship status.

"People are dying and all Nancy Pelosi and Democrats can focus on is ripping off the American taxpayer to help pay for their liberal wish list of government handouts," National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spokesman Michael McAdams said in a statement.

"As long as the White House keeps the checkbook open, Democrats will keep taking things," a senior Senate GOP leadership source told Fox News late Monday.

The NRCC went on to accuse Pelosi of cramming the bill "full of unrelated liberal goodies, including a return of the 'Obamaphone.'" Pelosi, the NRCC pointed out, wants $1 billion "to build on program expanded by President Obama that provides discounted phone service for low-income consumers."

That was an apparent reference to Title III, Section 301 of Pelosi's bill, which allocates $1 billion and calls for federal authorities to immediately expand the "emergency lifeline broadband benefit" for every household that contains at least one "qualifying low-income consumer." The bill refers to the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) to define the broadband benefit.
Title 47, Section 8.1(b) of the CFR defines "broadband internet access service" as including cell phones, saying it is any "mass-market retail service by wire or radio that provides the capability to transmit data to and receive data from all or substantially all internet endpoints, including any capabilities that are incidental to and enable the operation of the communications service."
A comprehensive 2017 report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that that the "Obamaphone" program, which gave cell phones to poor people under the broadband benefit, stashed $9 billion in private bank accounts and was "rife with fraud," the Washington Times reported at the time.
The program -- officially known as the Lifeline Program and run by the Federal Communications Commission -- predated President Obama but received attention during his time in office when recipients began to associate the free phone with other benefits given to the poor.
Former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat who called for the GAO report, blasted the "Obamaphone" program for lack of oversight.
“A complete lack of oversight is causing this program to fail the American taxpayer — everything that could go wrong is going wrong,” McCaskill said. “We’re currently letting phone companies cash a government check every month with little more than the honor system to hold them accountable, and that simply can’t continue."
The GAO report found that about 10.6 million people have an Obamaphone, but 36 percent of them may not qualify. The audit also concluded that more than 5,500 people were found to be enrolled for two phones, while the program was paying for about 6,400 phones for persons the government has listed as dead, the paper reported.

On the Senate floor Monday evening, Republican senators lined up to hammer what they described as Pelosi's pork, and her derailment of their stimulus proposal.

Senate Republicans and Democrats had a tentative agreement on a bill before Pelosi, arriving back to Capitol Hill from recess, suddenly said she would introduce her own legislation.

"Today, 102 Americans died while the Democrats blocked consideration of this bill," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said at one point. "One Texan died while this chamber decided not to show up for work and do their job."

Cruz also hit Democrats for seeking to bail out the U.S. Postal Service, which hasn't suggested it will terminate any employees.

"One of the reasons the Democrats think they will get away with this is they expect the media to be utterly complicit," Cruz added, noting that The New York Times conspicuously changed its headline three times Sunday evening to describe how Democrats had killed Republicans' stimulus bill.

The Times' first headline, "Democrats Block Action on $1.8 Trillion Stimulus," eventually became, "Partisan Divide Threatens Deal on Rescue Bill."

Sen. @tedcruz SLAMS the New York Times for changing their headline THREE times on Democrats blocking coronavirus relief

Leaving the GOP stimulus legislation in limbo once more, the Senate stalled over the package Monday afternoon on a 49-46 vote. It needed 60 votes to advance.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., then stormed to the floor to accuse Democrats of "mindless obstruction" that could drag out any action for days. He said Democrats' list of demands keeps getting "longer and longer."
After 7 p.m. ET, after hours of additional argument, McConnell announced, “We’ll not be having any votes tonight.” He filed cloture again to halt debate on the effort to start debate on the “shell” bill.
By the book, the new cloture petition won’t “ripen” for a vote until Wednesday. Lawmakers must allow for an “intervening day"; Tuesday is the intervening day -- but the Senate could technically then meet at 12:01 a.m. ET on Wednesday, and vote within an hour, given that time is of the essence.
They would need 60 yeas just to vault the procedural hurdle and formally start debate later in the week.
“Hope springs eternal," McConnell told Fox News as he left the floor, concerning whether a deal could be reached. “As you know, the talks continue no matter where people are physically located.”
Democrats argued the more-than $1 trillion package did too much for large corporations and not enough for workers, and inaccurately suggested that the treasury secretary would have unilateral control over a massive "slush fund."

Republicans accused them of playing politics and using the crisis as leverage to try and jam through unrelated political "wish list" items concerning climate change and more.

“The country is burning, and your side wants to play political games,” Senate Majority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., said shortly before the vote. “It is time to get this done. The American people expect us to act, they need action. We need to get this done for the American people.”

Thune slammed Democrats, specifically moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who just moments earlier said the bill was “weighted toward the Wall Street corporation side.”

“Here we are dilly-dallying around,” Thune said. “This bill is about workers, families, people out there hurting economically—we’re in a position to do something about it and it is high time that we did.”

Moderate Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, blasted Democrats as “disgraceful” for delaying further work on the legislation.

Pelosi, meanwhile, assailed Trump's idea and fluctuating response to the crisis.
"He's a notion-monger, just tossing out things that have no relationship to a well-coordinated, science-based, government-wide response to this," Pelosi said on a health-care conference call. "Thank God for the governors who are taking the lead in their state. Thank God for some of the people in the administration who speak truth to power.”

At the Capitol, the virus continued to strike close. Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who announced he tested positive for coronavirus, is now among five senators under self-quarantine. Several other lawmakers have cycled in and out of isolation. And the husband of Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., is in a hospital with pneumonia after testing positive, she said Monday.
Senate Democrats express concern that major corporations will use financial assistance the way they did in the 'Great Recession,' including enhanced executive compensation and stock buybacks.
But, Democrats were reluctant to allow remote voting.
“We can’t always remote vote,” one House Democratic aide told Fox News. “If we let the toothpaste out of the tube, how do we put it back in?”
The House took three years in the early 1970s to implement its current electronic voting system. That’s why there’s concern about throwing together a system to remote vote now with encryption and authentication.
“Think about how bad the app was in Iowa,” said one Democratic leadership source, a reference to the disaster this winter with the Iowa Democratic Caucus.

 

This was a really bad day for the fucking useless Democrats. "Never let a crisis go to waste" - Rahm Emanuel's immortal words (truly the only thing about him that will last).

In these circumstance, to junk up a desperately needed bill with shit about green energy tax credits is bullshit. Dems like Schumer say the Republicans filled it with corporate giveaways, but the Dems refuse to believe (or admit they believe, which I fully think they do) that you help the people who create jobs so they can HIRE and keep businesses in business and even growing so people can HAVE jobs.

No. For the past 60 years the Dems only want the American people, and specifically the minorities, to get what THEY give them: baubles and handouts, but no real success. Today in Congress proves that even more. The Dems don't give a fucking shit about you, your success or your very lives. It's all about being in charge of you.

But THIS is a wake-up call.

 

Wait. I thought Trumptards were against bailouts of any kind. Maybe if Dotard did not have his thumb in his ass for the last 3 months and called it a hoax things might be different.

What happened to the $2,000,000,000,000 in tax cuts corporations got? Instead of stock buy back they should have thought more about their employees.

 

We're dealing with an economically and personally devastating situation, and the best a tiny, angry little Libtard brain can come up with is a tax cut from 2017, the results of which have been widely debated, but granted, some corporate entities did use it to simply buy back stocks - which has been specifically precluded from the current bill.

Both pathetic to the extreme and just, well... sad for the amoeba-like brain that thinks this has any bearing on what's going on now.

Obviously this super-Trump-hating fuck doesn't care one little fucking shit about what's going on now. Bash away, you uncaring bitch. Grab your tawdry little talking points and go impress your equally empty-headed Libfuck friends.

You don't care a fucking fig about the American people - just your smug little talking points.

 

Maybe a 2nd Amendment rally similar to what took place on the steps of the Virginia Capitol Building is in order... But this time on the steps of Congress.. Freak all those cock suckers out wouldn't it????

 

I think the intelligence of anyone who delays action based on any politics whatseover must be questioned!

This is mathematics pure and simple........!

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56

Thinskin

 

So much for fiscal conservatives... Then again, that moniker was exposed as a lie a long time ago.

 

And so much for outrage by any member of congress about the debt.

 

Have I missed something or have we moved solidly into Keynesian economics? Is this ok now? Does it work and has it ever worked?