The deal is part of a much larger package, which includes a surprise billing compromise and government funding, making it thousands of pages and one of the largest stimulus packages at roughly $2.5 trillion.
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez isn’t alone in her frustration other members have criticized what they see as a top-to-bottom system pushing rank-and-file members out of the legislative process.
“When a few people decide everything in Congress, it means we have an oligarchy, not a representative democracy. When the media cast this corruption of our system as a good thing, it means there’s little hope for avoiding further lurches toward one-person rule,” Rep. Justin Amash, Michigan independent, tweeted.
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Congressional lawmakers grew impatient to see a massive government funding and virus aid package that Senate and House officials struggled to print and distribute thanks to a computer glitch.
The 5,000-plus page document was nowhere to be found in the Capitol Monday morning when lawmakers were scheduled to debate and vote on the bill before leaving town for the year. The bill was uploaded by 2 p.m.
The vote remains scheduled for today, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said.
The historically broad measure provides $900 billion in new federal aid to combat the impact of the coronavirus, and it is bundled with other legislation, including the $1.4 trillion package to fund the government through 2021. It also includes a $10 billion measure to reauthorize the nation’s water infrastructure projects and a national intelligence reauthorization measure.
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By Kristina Peterson, Andrew Duehren and Nick Timiraos WASHINGTON Senate Democrats and Republicans have reached an agreement over constraints to the Federal Reserve s emergency lending powers, clearing a last remaining hurdle for a $900 billion pandemic aid package. The compromise wouldn t prevent the central bank from creating similar programs in the future, according to aides from both parties. (Story below will update) A Republican push to curtail the Federal Reserve s emergency lending powers kept congressional leaders from completing a $900 billion coronavirus relief package for a second day Saturday, as lawmakers scrambled to compromise on the late-emerging dispute.
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