The deal revived action on President Biden’s coronavirus relief bill, his first major legislative initiative, which had stood in limbo in the Senate over hours of uncertainty after an earlier attempted compromise on unemployment insurance unraveled.
The changes shed light on what the role of the Senate moderates, and Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) in particular, might be in the months to come.
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Bonnie Lippe faced scorn from strangers for being “patient zero.” Her diagnosis on March 5, 2020 — followed shortly by confirmation that a Bethesda couple she’d never met had also tested positive — was a watershed moment, the beginning of the pandemic’s arc through Maryland.
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