Central Pa.'s congressmen unanimously oppose $2,000 federal stimulus checks

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All five U.S. House members from central Pennsylvania voted against a fast-tracked bill Monday that would boost the second round of stimulus payments to most Americans from $600 to $2,000.

Forty-four Republicans joined the vast majority of Democrats on Monday in approving the bill on a 275-to-134 vote — narrowly clearing the two-thirds threshold it needed to pass under fast-track consideration. But it’s fate in the Republican-controlled Senate is much less certain.

All members of the midstate delegation voted against the larger checks Monday. Many of them, like U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-York County, and U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker, R-Lancaster County, went on record as saying that they think the general issue stimulus checks are an extravagant over-reaction to the pandemic ...

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