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The latest round of COVID-19 relief was pegged as a victory for Pennsylvanians by Democrats while the Valley’s two Republican Congressmen blasted the $1.9 trillion package after voting against the bill, which President Joe Biden is expected to sign on Friday.
Rep. Fred Keller, R-Middleburg, renewed the bipartisan Bureau of Prisons Reform Caucus in the 117th Congress, highlighting the group’s mission to bring greater oversight to federal prisons and address the systemic issues within the BOP system.
A sweeping $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus package is headed to President Joe Biden’s desk after the U.S. House passed the latest pandemic relief measure Wednesday on a party-line vote.
WASHINGTON DC – After debate in the House, then the Senate, and then back in the House, the American Rescue Plan was given the green light today.
NewsChannel 34’s Basil John reports.
The COVID relief bill is heading to the President’s desk.
WASHINGTON — A sweeping $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus package is headed to President Joe Biden’s desk after the U.S. House passed the latest pandemic relief measure Wednesday on a party-line vote.
PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Story correction: It's 1.9 trillion, not 9.1 trillion.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Congress riven along party lines approved a landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and Democrats claimed a triumph on a bill that marshals the government's spending might against twin pandemic and economic crises that have upended a nation.
Rep. Fred Keller, R-Pa.., told Newsmax TV on Wednesday that the Protect the Right to Organize Act, or PRO Act, “inserts government into the employee-employer relationship," and said that there "should be a right not to organize."
MILTON — Unemployment and prolonged benefits are not healthy for the national economy, according to U.S. Rep. Fred Keller.