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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,956 posts)
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 02:26 PM Feb 2021

House gives final approval to budget plan including Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus

over unified Republican opposition.

The House gave final approval on Friday to a budget blueprint that included President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan, advancing it over unanimous Republican opposition as Democrats pressed forward with plans to begin drafting the aid package next week and speed it through the House by the end of the month.

“We’ve got a chance to do something big here,” Mr. Biden told senior House Democrats at the White House earlier Friday, just hours after the Senate had endorsed his sweeping pandemic aid package in a pre-dawn, party-line vote and not long before the House adopted it, 219-209, with every Republican opposed.

Earlier, after a 15-hour voting session that stretched overnight, Vice President Kamala Harris cast her first tiebreaking vote to push the measure through the Senate by a vote of 51 to 50 at about 5:30 a.m.

In the marathon session — known as a vote-a-rama and for which more than 800 amendments were drafted — Senate Democrats had maneuvered through a series of politically tricky amendments that Republicans sought to attach to their budget plan.

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House gives final approval to budget plan including Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2021 OP
Big government Oldem Feb 2021 #1

Oldem

(833 posts)
1. Big government
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 02:32 PM
Feb 2021

at its best, taking care of people. Take that repugs! It is discouraging, though, to see that not even Romney voted for it. It's always "let them eat cake" with repugs.

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