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Senate Republicans Come Up With New COVID Relief Legislation

Senate Republicans Come Up With New COVID Relief Legislation

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Senators have put together their next round of stimulus in legislative form. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says there’s several opportunities to get a COVID 19 relief bill passed during the lame duck session. He also says for it to get passed before the election it’ll have to be up by next Wednesday.

He says the package he and his fellow Senators came up provides funding to assist farmers as well as businesses and families.

Grassley says Republican Senators have given enough leeway in their stimulus proposal to allow Democrats to make any amendments or changes they want to in the Senate.

Grassley says another option they’ve given Democrats is to be able to pass this measure in the Senate and then send it to the House where it can be amended or brought up in a conference committee for possible changes.

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