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Published: Saturday, 12 December 2020 05:54
December 12, 2020 - Washington - Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) joined Senators Jeff Merkley, (D-Ore.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) to
push Senate leaders to deliver critical housing assistance to Americans struggling to find reliable shelter in the wake of catastrophic wildfire damage in western states. This year alone, fires in the west burned more than 5.8 million acres, claimed more than 30 lives and forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.
“The current wildfires will further exacerbate an already critical affordable housing shortage impacting western states. Oregon, California, and Washington are short over 1.2 million affordable rental housing units, and have an average of 75% of extremely low income renter households dealing with severe cost burden,” the senators wrote to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer
“It’s an unconscionable position: no relief for the American people unless corporations receive blanket immunity from lawsuits,” Schumer said.
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Senate approves funding bill by voice vote to avert shutdown: The Senate passed a one-week stopgap bill on Friday, hours ahead of a government shutdown deadline.
Senators passed the bill by a voice vote, moving the funding deadline from the end of the day Friday to Dec. 18. The one-week continuing resolution (CR) already passed the House on Wednesday, meaning it now goes to President Trump
Though a shutdown is averted for now, negotiators are still trying to lock down a mammoth agreement that would include the 12 fiscal 2021 bills and fund the government until Oct. 1, 2021. The Hill’s Jordain Carney tells us more about the work left to do here.
Can Biden wipe out that sort of debt with just the flick of a pen?
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) called on President-elect Joe Biden to forgive some student debt during his time in the White House, a push that came nearly three months after he and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced a plan that the incoming president should cancel up to $50,000 in debt per student loan borrower next year through executive order. The measure, however, has a swirl of legal debate as experts argue over the president’s power to cancel student loan debt.
The Warren-Schumer resolution proposed in Congress clearly targets Biden since President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have voiced their opposition to forgiving student loan debt.