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COVID-19 Relief Package Heads To Senate As Debate Over Minimum Wage Continues
The Senate will debate a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 bill and aim to pass it using a process that avoids a Republican filibuster. A battle over efforts to raise the minimum wage still splits Democrats.
![Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, seen here at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, is leading a group of Republican senators who have written to President Biden with a request to detail a COVID-19 rescue counterproposal.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/gettyimages-1299158723-99ce7edc867e2c7df038944d41c1f97acae46554-scaled-e1612120648283-900x422.jpg)
10 Senate Republicans Outline $600B Counteroffer To Biden’s COVID-19 Relief Bill
By: Barbara Sprunt | NPR
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The senators are asking to work with President Biden on a coronavirus relief package that they believe could be approved “quickly by Congress with bipartisan support.”