WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Luria joined her colleagues in the Problem Solvers Caucus and a bipartisan group of Senators in announcing a four-month bipartisan, bicameral COVID-19 emergency relief framework that will prioritize support for families, students, small businesses, and health care providers.
“Eight months after the CARES Act became law, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to devastate families and small businesses across our nation,” said Congresswoman Elaine Luria. “Congress must do its job by finding common ground and putting forth a realistic COVID-19 relief package. I am encouraged by this framework that presents the viable and bipartisan proposals our communities need during this unprecedented public health emergency and economic crisis.”
The framework consists of $908 billion in aid and includes relief in the following key categories:
$288 billion for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)
$160 billion for state and local governments
$180 billion for additional unemployment insurance
$82 billion for education funding
$25 billion for Healthcare Provider Relief Fund
$25 billion in housing assistance
$10 billion for dedicated broadband funding
Congresswoman Luria is a member of the Problem Solvers Caucus, which is a bipartisan group in Congress comprised of 50 members, equally comprised of Democrats and Republicans, who are committed to forging bipartisan cooperation on key issues.
So let me get this straight. We elect people to be our leaders in Congress so that they can address the issues and challenges that we all face. It’s an entire year after this pandemic began to show it’s ugly face to us all and the best some leaders can do is tell us is that they have created a bipartisan (there’s that word again) Problem Solving Caucus that will take 4 months to decide what the problems and solutions are. In other words, the problem solvers have gone to D.C. to solve problems and after a year of a crisis more deadly than world wars, our local representative leader tells us the progress they have made is forming a group they call a problem solving club.
Will they be more or less effective than The Mickey Mouse Club ? You get 3 guesses.
No wonder so many Americans are disturbed, depressed and suicidal. No wonder some of our leaders want to destroy the 2nd Amendment. No wonder many of us wanted a leader who look s at problems in a newer and more effective way.
Meanwhile, outside the confines of this historic new smiling, bipartisan and time wasting club, President Trump LEADS. He removed the barriers to quick research so that Operation Warp Speed would create the vaccine. He kept building the wall to try to keep unhealthy and illegal immigrants out, while signing declarations to make all entry points tighter due to covid, and he laid to rest the entire 3 yr. old Russiagate b.s. that wasted so much damn money and time. His production took place despite the naysayers and lobbyists in D.C. working with the Problem Solvers to do their best to hold up all progress and life saving work while the problem solvers figure out how to carve up a bigger piece of the pie and profits for their constituents, all under the guidance of Nancy Pelosi and her thugs. Luria is as bipartisan as a starving killer shark in a pool of seals. Thank God Pelosi can find the time to get her hair done w/o a mask after she walks through the sea of junkies, their pee and poop all over the sidewalk in front of the hair salon that is now closed down because Pelosi lied and said the salon owner set her up. The problems just keep piling up, and more and more press releases of more and more problems are sent our way, along with the Jay C. Fords of the world who will tell us how to act and try to punish and cancel us if we don’t see things their way with our words.
God Bless America.
Right on!!! And Scotiagirl is likewise tired of this “bipartisan” BS. On a related subject, and in connection with another of this week’s posts, Scotiagirl offers a solution. Let us all petition Elaine Luria to pass a BIPARTISAN bill to fund restoration of the railway cars. She could ask for enough money to transform them into the sorely needed facilities she envisions for selling marijuana. Proceeds from the proposed 5% tax could go directly to whomever, in Cape Charles, she decides has been “harmed” by the Crime Bill.
Write Wayne ? Ask for private intro ? I did.