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'Hardy debate' on COVID bill could start Wednesday -Schumer

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'Hardy debate' on COVID bill could start Wednesday -Schumer

'Hardy debate' on COVID bill could start Wednesday -Schumer

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the chamber was due to take up, as early as Wednesday, President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that passed last weekend by the House of Representatives.


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