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On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers unveiled legislation for a new coronavirus stimulus worth more than $900 billion, hoping to break months of deadlock between the House and Senate. The group specified their “COVID Emergency Relief Framework,” which calls for $288 billion in small-business support and $180 billion for extended unemployment insurance, among other fiscal appropriations. 

The new proposal follows months of failed negotiations between House Democrats and Republican White House officials. The bipartisan group said the pitch is a way to resolve the months-long deadlock between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Republican leaders, who have not wavered for months on their separate proposals.

An agreement on a new stimulus plan is becoming increasingly urgent, as part of the $2 trillion CARES Act are nearing their expiration, including expanded unemployment insurance and eviction moratoriums, which will vanish at the end of the year.

Rep. Dusty Johnson, lawmakers back $900B stimulus package

Via www.msn.com

Dusty Johnson and a bipartisan group of lawmakers announced a proposal for a $900 billion…

12/01/2020 6:55 PM

 

Roberta McCain, mother of late U.S. Sen. John McCain, died Monday at the age of 108, at her home in Washington, D.C., family members announced. “I couldn’t have asked for a better role model or a better friend,” daughter-in-law Cindy McCain, widow of Sen. McCain, tweeted.  

Roberta McCain was an Oklahoma oil heiress and wife and daughter-in-law of two U.S. 4-star Navy Admirals. She campaigned at age 96 for her son’s presidential run against Democrat Barack Obama in 2008. Roberta McCain attended the 2018 Washington, D.C., funeral of her son, Sen. John McCain, who died of cancer at age 81. Roberta met and eloped with Jack McCain, a Navy officer serving aboard a battleship docked in Long Beach.

Sen. John McCain credited his mother’s support with his success in politics including two presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2008, two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, and five Senate terms. Roberta and her husband raised their three children in Washington, D.C. Her husband died in 1981 and her daughter, Jean Alexandra “Sandy” Morgan, died in 2019. Survivors include her son, Joseph McCain of Washington; 10 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren.

Roberta McCain, John McCain’s mother, dies at 108

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Roberta McCain, the mother of the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, has died

10/12/2020 4:58 PM