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<blockquote data-quote="Zable" data-source="post: 212759" data-attributes="member: 47">Unless I&#039;m greatly mistaken, that &quot;bailout bill&quot; that is doling out more than 2 trillion USD is the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief &amp; Economic Security) Act.Let&#039;s not lose sight that it&#039;s an umbrella piece of legislation, bringing together legislation for various areas of concern in this pandemic era under a specific banner; among them:1. COVID-19 Pandemic Education Relief Act of 2020;2. Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act;3. Coronavirus Economic Stabilization Act of 2020;4. Emergency Appropriations for Coronavirus Health Response &amp; Agency Operations;5. Relief for Workers Affected by Coronavirus Act;So the 2 trillion dollar stimulus package is being shared among all these groupings.The CARES Act gets its name from the Senate bill, which when it was first introduced by the House was known as the Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal bill 2019. The intention then was &quot;to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on high-cost employer-sponsored health coverage&quot;.What I&#039;ve noticed about AOC&#039;s and Bernie Sanders&#039; voting records is that AOC is more likely to vote against a bill if there is just one thing in it she doesn&#039;t like/opposes even if she is supportive of other parts; while Sanders is more likely to do the opposite.I think The Intercept has a misplaced sense of priorities (not to mention language): &quot;It&#039;s a scandal that we don&#039;t know who supported the coronavirus bailout,&quot; one of its headlines screamed.&nbsp;&nbsp; ....It was a socially-distant by voice-vote, very prudent in this stay-in-shelter pandemic times. I presume the vote count determination was done by tallying the responses at least. Truly, how scandalous will it be if the public should never get to see the name behind each vote?Some folk were speculating about behind the scenes tension over the final bill because no Democrat was present when Prez Trump signed the bill into law with key members of his inner-circle present. I&#039;m not losing sleep over it.&nbsp; Maybe, like the reason for the by voice vote, no Dem cares to be out-of-shelter at this time.My eyes are now on CARES 2, officially Phase 4 of the pandemic relief roll-out, which some among POLITICO&#039;s contributors have taken to calling Phase 3.5.<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/03/pelosi-phase-4-coronavirus-relief-package-163072" target="_blank">https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/03/pelosi-phase-4-coronavirus-relief-package-163072</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zable, post: 212759, member: 47"] Unless I'm greatly mistaken, that "bailout bill" that is doling out more than 2 trillion USD is the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief & Economic Security) Act. Let's not lose sight that it's an umbrella piece of legislation, bringing together legislation for various areas of concern in this pandemic era under a specific banner; among them: 1. COVID-19 Pandemic Education Relief Act of 2020; 2. Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act; 3. Coronavirus Economic Stabilization Act of 2020; 4. Emergency Appropriations for Coronavirus Health Response & Agency Operations; 5. Relief for Workers Affected by Coronavirus Act; So the 2 trillion dollar stimulus package is being shared among all these groupings. The CARES Act gets its name from the Senate bill, which when it was first introduced by the House was known as the Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal bill 2019. The intention then was "to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on high-cost employer-sponsored health coverage". What I've noticed about AOC's and Bernie Sanders' voting records is that AOC is more likely to vote against a bill if there is just one thing in it she doesn't like/opposes even if she is supportive of other parts; while Sanders is more likely to do the opposite. I think The Intercept has a misplaced sense of priorities (not to mention language): "It's a scandal that we don't know who supported the coronavirus bailout," one of its headlines screamed. ....It was a socially-distant by voice-vote, very prudent in this stay-in-shelter pandemic times. I presume the vote count determination was done by tallying the responses at least. Truly, how scandalous will it be if the public should never get to see the name behind each vote? Some folk were speculating about behind the scenes tension over the final bill because no Democrat was present when Prez Trump signed the bill into law with key members of his inner-circle present. I'm not losing sleep over it. Maybe, like the reason for the by voice vote, no Dem cares to be out-of-shelter at this time. My eyes are now on CARES 2, officially Phase 4 of the pandemic relief roll-out, which some among POLITICO's contributors have taken to calling Phase 3.5. [URL]https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/03/pelosi-phase-4-coronavirus-relief-package-163072[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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