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The Week on the Hill: House approves $3 trillion pandemic relief package

The House has approved the largest relief package ever taken up by lawmakers, to deal with the pandemic, as well as a historic change to allow remote voting.

But the more than $3 trillion legislation put together by Democrats isn’t going anywhere in the Republican-controlled Senate.

The parties are far apart as they consider the next major legislation to address the coronavirus.

WTOP’s Mitchell Miller has “The Week on the Hill.”

House again passes a resolution seeking to halt military action in Iran as the conflict escalates

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday narrowly passed a resolution to halt U.S. military action in Iran, sending a warning to President Donald Trump for the second time as the war has escalated and the future of the conflict is increasingly uncertain. The 214-208 vote requiring congressional approval for the war came just before the Senate narrowly rejected a similar resolution, 47-49. Though the votes forced by Democrats are largely symbolic, they are meant as a signal to the Republican president that his support on Capitol Hill is chipping away as the war drags on and lawmakers in both parties have questioned his administration’s endgame. The war has had “no clear mission, no strategy, no end goal,” said Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat who led the resolution on the House floor. The House resolution passed after a handful of Republicans voted with Democrats to end the war. But the vast majority of Republicans in both chambers voted to back the war and cede congressional war powers to Trump.
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