Pelosi says House will draft its own coronavirus funding bill
By Mike Lillis - 03/22/20 12:15 PM EDT
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Sunday that House Democrats would draft their own coronavirus stimulus bill after all sides failed to reach a deal on a massive proposal being negotiated in the Senate.
“We’ll be introducing our own bill and hopefully it will be compatible with what they discuss on the Senate side,†Pelosi said as she left a short meeting in the Capitol with the leaders of both parties negotiating the stimulus package.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has scheduled a procedural vote for 3 p.m. on Sunday to jumpstart the process, and has vowed a second vote on the massive proposal Monday.
Yet Pelosi signaled the sides remain far apart, indicating that McConnell's timeline might be overly ambitious, at least as it pertains to winning bipartisan support.
"I don't know about Monday, but we're still talking," she said. "That's on the Senate side now because that's their deadline for a vote."
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