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Coronavirus cartoons: Congress nears deal on stimulus package

Funding for a rail project near House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s California district that Republicans denounced as wasteful was removed Tuesday from President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus bill.

The Senate parliamentarian ruled the $140 million appropriation wasn’t allowed under the so-called Byrd rule that polices unrelated items in budget reconciliation bills.

Republicans singled out the rail project as an example of unrelated “pork” in the bill, which is being rammed through Congress without Republican support using special rules that allow a simple majority vote in the Senate.

On Tuesday, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) ridiculed the project as Pelosi’s “tunnel of love” ahead of an anticipated vote on the package later this week.

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https://nypost.com/2021/03/02/140-million-pelosi-subway-axed-from-senate-covid-bill/

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  • This whole bill needs to be eliminated.  The country would be far better served by just opening it up and letting people get back to work.  But if you are looking for specifiecs, how about the bridge from New York to Canada and funding for the NIA (and other arts related companies). 

  • My covid relief bill.  "$1400 to AMERICAN CITIZENS earning less than $100,00 per year".  Less than 1 page. 

    • Who earns less than $100 a year?

       

    • Seriously?? You actually think that everyone earns 100k+ a year?? Which cave do you live in??

  • !! PISSLOUSIE !! 

  • the Democrats sure know how to make life misreble for the ciotizen of this country.

  • How related are the provisions giving abortions out wholesale to foreign countries as well as the USA?  This needs to be axed and should have been gone already!

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