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Democrats pushing Biden's COVID-19 bill through House panels

by Kevin FrekingRicardo Alonso-Zaldivar
| February 13, 2021 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pushed half of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan through a House committee Thursday, advancing $1,400 payments for millions of Americans and other initiatives that Republicans call too costly, economically damaging and brazenly partisan.

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