JUST IN: US House gives final passage to $484B coronavirus relief bill, with funding aimed at helping small businesses and hospitals, as well as $25B for increased virus testing; President Trump expected to sign.
House members arrived at the Capitol building Thursday wearing face masks and were instructed to remain six feet apart. Members were also broken up into eight different alphabetical groups based on their last name for voting in an effort to limit the number of people on the House floor during the vote.earlier in the month over a Republican proposal that would have provided just $250 billion to replenish the depleted small-business funds.
"There will be a big, broad, bold COVID 4. For anyone who thinks this is the last train out of the station, that is not close to the case," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said at a news conference with Pelosi on Tuesday after the Senate passed the interim bill.
"We will not try to pass another rescue package by consent," McConnell told reporters on Wednesday. The Senate has passed previous coronavirus legislation by voice vote or unanimous consent, meaning that lawmakers were not on record voting for or against the bills. House members scrambled to return to Washington this week to vote on the interim bill after they could not agree to vote by unanimous consent, which would not have required all of them to return.
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