"Congress must pass this bill to address the immediate need, but let's be clear: this should be considered a down payment at best."
"We're coming out of this pandemic like countries come out of world wars, with thousands of dead and devastated economies," said one senator.
"With no end to the pandemic in sight, and a cutoff of nearly all federal unemployment benefits by year's end looming on the horizon, inaction by Congress could mean that millions of American families will enter the New Year with little or no means of support."
Vehicular rallies near polling stations represent a type of voter intimidation that "we haven't seen in our prior federal elections," said one scholar.