WASHINGTON (WHTC-AM/FM) – The clock is winding down on getting a fresh federal stimulus package into law before the November 3rd General Election.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi set a Tuesday deadline for Republicans to have a deal in place to her liking, while Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blamed the GOP for thinking too narrowly on a new package. St. Joseph Republican Fred Upton, a vice-chairman of the bipartisan House Problems Solvers Caucus, says his group has been working on a compromise deal for several weeks now.
“I believe that there is a common ground,” Upton said on Holland’s “WHTC Morning News” during his weekly appearance on Tuesday. “There are a number of things that we can do, and waiting until after the election and punting it until who knows when, it’s just not the responsible course that we ought to take.”
Upton believes that, if no deal is reached before November 3rd, it may not be until a new Congress is seated in January that another stimulus package would become a reality.
