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Congress on Monday approved a $900 billion COVID-19 stimulus package that was combined with a $1.4 trillion government-funding bill.
Among the provisions in the 5,000-plus-page bill is a stipulation that would make illegal streaming a felony.
The omnibus package would give aid to Israel and Jordan and includes funding for the southern border wall, broadband, and the military.
The bill is headed to President Donald Trump for his signature.
The House of Representatives and the Senate on Monday approved a $900 billion stimulus package that would give Americans $600 checks and provide a $300 weekly federal unemployment benefit for 11 weeks.
The stimulus was combined with a $1.4 trillion government-funding omnibus bill with a wide range of provisions including making illegal streaming a felony.
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The Smithsonian Institution can start the process of building two new museums in Washington honoring the history of women and American Latinos after Congress cleared a massive year-end omnibus bill.
Separate bills authorizing both museums passed the House this year as stand-alone measures but were unable to get through the Senate, so they were added to the omnibus to provide for easier passage.
The omnibus measure, passed by Congress on Monday, is a 5,593-page collection of bills, including fiscal 2021 appropriations, coronavirus relief and extraneous measures. The latter included the two bills authorizing the Smithsonian to build a Women’s History Museum and a National Museum of the American Latino.
Congress backs Sen. Collins’ measure for women’s history museum
Two new Smithsonian museums for the nation s capital included in year-end funding bill, including one Collins has sought since 2003.
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A new Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum on the National Mall that U.S. Sen. Susan Collins has supported for years was part of a year-end omnibus funding bill that sailed through Congress.
“Telling the history of American women matters, it inspires girls to know that there are no boundaries to their potential,” Collins told a Senate panel last month. “A museum recognizing the achievements and experiences of American women is long overdue.”
On Monday, Congress approved legislation to start the process of creating a national Latino museum in the United States as part of the $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill that President Donald Trump is expected to sign. We have overcome tremendous obstacles and unbelievable hurdles to get to this historic moment, but as I ve said before, Latinos are used to overcoming obstacles, said Senator Bob Menendez, who co-sponsored legislation to create the National Museum of the American Latino with Senator John Cornyn. As a first-generation Cuban American, I know what it s like to feel invisible in a nation where Latinos are seldom celebrated, added Menendez, a Democratic senator from New Jersey. I am enormously proud of my role in getting this legislation over the finish line and cannot wait until the day when I can take my granddaughters to visit the National Museum of the American Latino in our nation s capital.