The top Republican on the House's tax-writing committee blasted the Democrats' $3 trillion coronavirus relief legislation as a "recipe for a prolonged recession." "The word cannabis appears more times in Democrats' bill than the word job," said Brady, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee. HOUSE DEMS UNVEIL CORONAVIRUS BILL ESTIMATED TO COST $3T, IN LARGEST STIMULUS PACKAGE YETCannabis shows up 68 times in the 1,815-page legislation. Then, the House Democrats plan another round of $1,200 stimulus checks per person to an expanded pool of recipients. The author of the bill, Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., cheered that his cannabis legislation made it into the $3 trillion coronavirus bill.

Source: Fox News May 13, 2020 16:47 UTC