Other Peoples’ Messes: Partisan Pasts, Echoes and Rhymes

On March 11 President Biden signed the COVID-19 Stimulus Package, the House having passed the revised version the day before 220–211 without a single Republican vote. That Senate version of the relief bill received a 50 Democratic, 49 Republican vote the first Saturday in March. The previous Saturday, February 27, the lower chamber approved their iteration of the bill 219 Dem-212 Republican…