Senate GOP 'goal' is to vote next week on 'targeted' coronavirus relief bill

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Senate GOP 'goal' is to vote next week on 'targeted' coronavirus relief bill
By Alexander Bolton - 09/01/20 08:06 AM EDT

Senate Republican leaders hope to vote next week on what they are calling a “focused” and “targeted” coronavirus relief bill, setting up what they hope will be a tough political vote for Democrats shortly before November's elections.

The timing of the vote needs to be approved by the entire Senate Republican conference, which is scheduled to hold a conference call Tuesday morning with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Barrasso (Wyo.) said Tuesday morning the “goal” is to vote on the legislation next week after the Senate returns from its August recess.


“We have a focused, targeted solution that we hope that the House would pass and the House would agree to,” he told Lisa Desjardins, a correspondent for "PBS NewsHour," after an early morning pro forma session.

Barrasso said the legislation is “focused on getting people back to work, getting kids back to school.”

He said “it leaves out” what he called “the so many things that [Speaker Nancy] Pelosi has put in her bill that are unrelated to coronavirus.”

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Any pared-down coronavirus relief bill would need 60 votes to pass the Senate, and Democrats are expected to block it, which could give Senate GOP candidates something to talk about on the campaign trail.

Pelosi will never agree until the bankrupt Dem cities/states are bailed out.

I wish the Repubs would just move on from this and campaign on it..