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Emerging Virus Aid Bill Aims to Help Cities, Postal Service

Associated Press

   WASHINGTON - Although timing for the House's return isn't set, the
   outlines are emerging for a Democratic-driven bill to aid states and
   local governments, the Postal Service and boost contact tracing to
   track the coronavirus.

   Democratic leaders promise that the House will deliver legislation to
   help state and local governments through the COVID-19 crisis as early
   as next week, though the measure is still being drafted by committee
   chairs and party leaders like Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

   No. 2 House Democrat Steny Hoyer of Maryland said Wednesday that party
   leadership was hoping for bipartisan backing for the upcoming bill, the
   fifth effort to respond to the devastation COVID-19 has delivered to
   the economy and U.S. life. Ultimately, it'll take arduous bipartisan
   negotiations to produce a bill but the right dynamic hasn't caught fire
   yet.

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