County lawmakers split along party lines in pandemic relief voting
EButler County's congressional representatives voted along party lines in an early Saturday morning roll call vote resulting in approval of the proposed $1.9-trillion American Rescue Plan, based on an economic stimulus plan President Joe Biden announced in January.
All Republican representatives, including Rep. Mike Kelly, R-16th, and Glenn Thompson, R-15th, along with two Democrats voted against the bill, which passed in a 219-212 vote cast just after 2 a.m. Saturday,
Rep. Connor Lamb, D-17th, voted in favor of the bill that now goes to the Senate for consideration.
This is an excerpt from a story that appears in Monday's Butler Eagle.