U.S.
congressional Democrats push for coronavirus medical supply czar
Kentucky
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to protect businesses and others
from COVID-related litigation from protection their workers
Notice
how a politician can change, add to or take from a demand to soften the blow to
their citizens?
“Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the way forward on coronavirus legislation
would depend on Democrats’ willingness to agree to protect businesses and
others from COVID-related litigation.
“We’re
going to insist on this reform, which is not related to money, as a condition
for going forward,”
McConnell told Fox News Radio”.
Democrats
dismiss liability protection as a step that could weaken protections for
workers.
“Especially
now, we have every reason to protect our workers
and our patients in all of
this.
So we would not be inclined
to be supporting any immunity from
liability,”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters.
