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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today joined
FOX News’ Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino on “America’s Newsroom” where she discussed
the Republican COVID-19 relief proposal. Senator Capito and nine other Senate
Republicans unveiled their proposal yesterday ahead of meeting
with President Joe Biden to discuss the package in more detail.
Full text of the ten
Republican Senator’s COVID-19 relief proposal is available here.
HIGHLIGHTS:
PRECEDENCE OF BIPARTISANSHIP: “It was a productive meeting and I think that anytime
you’re in the room together, you’re negotiating, you’re talking about areas of
common interest – the speed in which we get relief. We impressed upon the president
that we’ve had five COVID relief bills that we’ve been able to pass bipartisan
up to this point, and we feel very strongly that we need to have voices at the
table that talk about our common areas. So, let’s pull the extraneous out of
this bill and try to keep within a guideline of targeted relief.”
BIPARTISAN PACKAGE: “[President Biden] was open to suggestions of targeting individual
checks to folks in the lower and middle income area. Our like areas of vaccine
and testing [funding], we’re all in the same boat here. We did try to impress
upon the president that we thought the quicker way to get this would be through
a bipartisan package, where we have common areas. I think he was amenable to
listen to that.”
IMPORTANCE OF TARGETED RELIEF: “I think that being fiscally responsible is the way
that we should look at this, and making sure we’re taking care of the folks
that are really hurting.”
MOVING FORWARD:
Here is where I think the bottom line is – I think this starts the conversation
with us that will carry through into other things. For that, I feel really
good. I do think that we need to work on this COVID [relief package] together
as we have in the past. Let’s hope that the meeting last night had an
impression on [President Biden].”
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