House committees to work on Covid relief package next week: Pelosi

Washington, Jan 22 : US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that House committees will work on a new Covid-19 relief package from next week.
“We’re getting ready for a Covid relief package. We’ll be working on that as we go,” Xinhua news agency quoted Pelosi as saying at her weekly press conference on Thursday.
“We’ll be doing our committee work all next week so that we are completely ready to go to the floor when we come back” at the beginning of February, she said.
Pelosi noted that the relief proposals from the Joe Biden administration build on many of the initiatives that were in previous packages drafted by House Democrats.
“It’s what the people need, what the country needs to crush the virus, put money in the pockets of the American people, and honour our heroes,” she said.
Pelosi’s remarks came after Janet Yellen, President Joe Biden’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, on Tuesday urged Congress to “act big” with a new Covid-19 relief package.