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With just one exception, every Republican member of the U.S. House from Alabama voted against President Trump over higher COVID-19 relief payments. Robert Aderholt was the lone GOP vote in favor of the $2000 checks favored by Trump and House Democrats. The economic impact of the coronavirus on Alabama remains apparent. The state Department of Labor says over one hundred thousand Alabamians remain without work, blamed largely on the coronavirus. The state’s unemployment rate dropped to 4.4% in November. That’s a big improvement from earlier in the year but still above last year s level. The 4.4% November rate was better than October s revised rate of 5.7%. But it was still higher than the November 2019 level of only 2.7%. Despite the apparent need for greater COVID relief, Alabama Representatives Bradley Byrne, Mo Brooks, Mike Rogers, and Martha Roby all voted no. Democrat Terri Sewell was the only other Alabama House member to vote in favor of the higher payments.
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Yves here. A lot of people on Twitter have been arguing for letting Mitch McConnell have his ask of a repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as a trade for increasing the relief checks in the current Covid “stimulus” package from $600 to $2000. This article helps explain why a guy like McConnell is so keen to kill Section 230.
By Jessica Corbett, staff writer at CommonDreams. Originally published at CommonDreams
Digital rights advocates and sex workers are among those speaking out against GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s attempt to tie House-approved $2,000 coronavirus relief direct payments to repealing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which critics are condemning as an “outrageous attack on internet freedom.”