Pelosi, Schumer Back Bipartisan Plan as Base for Stimulus Talks

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer call for immediate stimulus talks and say a bipartisan $908 billion aid proposal should be the foundation for negotiations.

• “We believe the bipartisan framework introduced by senators yesterday should be used as the basis for immediate bipartisan, bicameral negotiations,” Pelosi and Schumer say in statement
  • “Of course, we and others will offer improvements, but the need to act is immediate and we believe that with good-faith negotiations we could come to an agreement”

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