{"id":32472,"date":"2021-03-05T15:37:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T23:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32472"},"modified":"2021-03-05T15:37:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T23:37:19","slug":"how-long-will-relief-bill-votes-in-the-senate-keep-going-unclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32472","title":{"rendered":"How long will relief bill votes in the Senate keep going? Unclear.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic drama over unemployment benefits is snagging the Senate\u2019s coronavirus relief debate.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate has been stuck in a state of limbo for hours as senators try to figure out the path forward on 10 weekly unemployment payments.<\/p>\n<p>Senators have filed two competing unemployment proposals: One, from Sen.\u00a0Rob Portman\u00a0(R-Ohio), would provide $300 per week through mid-July, a significantly shorter timeline than what\u2019s supported by most Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The second, from Sen.\u00a0Tom Carper\u00a0(D-Del.), would provide a $300 weekly payment through September.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a change from the House bill, which provided $400 per week through August. But Democrats unveiled the agreement earlier Friday, characterizing it as a deal worked out by their moderate and progressive factions.<\/p>\n<p>In order for Democrats to attach their proposal to the coronavirus bill, they would need the support of all 50 members of their caucus and Vice President Harris to break a tie.<\/p>\n<p>But in a significant snag, Portman told reporters that he believes he can get the support of all 50 GOP senators and Sen.\u00a0Joe Manchin\u00a0(D-W.Va.) to vote for his proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think so,\u201d Portman said, asked if he has the entire GOP caucus and Manchin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic drama over unemployment benefits is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32473,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32472\/revisions\/32473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}