Emmer, Boyle Urge Media PPP Eligibility in Next COVID-19 Bill
Congressional Broadcasters Caucus co-Chairs Reps. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., are pressing to include language in the next COVID-19 aid bill to make broadcasters and other local outlets eligible for the Small Business Administration-administered Paycheck Protection Program. The…
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House passed the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act (HR-6800) in May with such a provision (see 2005180056). Proposals Senate Republicans released earlier this week contain no similar language (see 2007280059). Boyle and Emmer noted language from the Local News and Emergency Information Act (HR-6897/S-3718), which mirrors HR-6800 on media PPP eligibility (see 2005130059). The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (Cares) Act enacted in March (see 2003260063) gave “hotels, restaurants, and others … the ability to count their employees for the purpose of the PPP by individual location rather than as part of their ownership groups,” the lawmakers said Tuesday in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and the chambers’ minority leaders. “These are precisely the business partners who have been forced to drop their advertising." Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., led a letter to McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Health Committee leaders urging them to include the Public Health Emergency Privacy Act’s language in the next aid measure.