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  • We should not adjourn until the Senate holds a vote on both measures.

  • The end a a veto override and the House bill to provide $2000 checks for the American people.

  • As we all know, the majority leader controls the schedule on the floor.

  • So Leader McConnell holds the key to unlocking this dilemma.

  • $600.

  • Nope, it's not enough.

  • So in a moment I will move to have the Senate take up the House bill to increase that number to $2000 which, I might add, had broad bipartisan support.

  • I don't want to hear that we can't afford it.

  • I don't want to hear that it would add too much to the deficit.

  • Senate Republicans added nearly two trillion to the deficit to give corporations a massive tax cut.

  • Republicans just far to include a tax break for three martini lunches in the covert relief bill.

  • So I don't want to hear it that it costs too much to help working families get a check when they're struggling to keep their jobs, pay their families, pay their rent, feed their families.

  • Will Senate Republicans fight for a vote on the House passed cash act Or will they look some other way with the senator?

  • Modify his request to include a unanimous consent request that you to include unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of HR 9051 A bill received from the House to increase recovery rebate amounts to $2000 per of individual that the bill be read a third time and passed the motion to reconsider, be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate.

  • Is there objection to the modification object Objection is heard.

We should not adjourn until the Senate holds a vote on both measures.

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