Client Alert: Collaboration in Congress: The Road to Finally Passing an End-of-Year COVID-Relief Bill | Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
Late on Sunday, December 27 th, after initially raising concerns about the pandemic relief measure that had overwhelmingly passed Congress days before, President Trump signed the measure into law, ending a long political stalemate and beginning the process of sending financial relief to American families and small businesses, further aiding the American economy. As with the CARES Act enacted in March, this bill, the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021,” passed the House and Senate overwhelmingly, on a bipartisan vote of 359-53 in the House, followed swiftly by a 92-6 vote in the Senate...