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| Nancy Pelosi is not interested in sending House lawmakers home to face discontented voters without first passing another round of legislation to fortify the coronavirus-ravaged economy. The speaker told CNBC yesterday that she would not adjourn the House for the November elections without taking further legislative action, and in private she was blunt with fellow lawmakers. “We have to stay here until we have a bill,” she said, according to two people familiar with the comments. In the afternoon, a bipartisan group of 50 legislators, calling themselves the House Problem Solvers Caucus, unveiled a $1.5 trillion proposal for the next round of economic relief. It seeks common ground on a number of measures that have so far left Democrats and Republicans stalemated all summer — but it also shies away from certain elements demanded by partisans on each side of the aisle. It’s altogether less ambitious than the $3 trillion legislation passed by the House in May. The proposal is largely symbolic: Some members of the Problem Solvers Caucus have privately acknowledged it has little chance of passing. Still, it underscores the pressure that incumbents in both parties feel to address the pandemic and shore up the economy in advance of the November elections. |
