House Passes Budget Resolution to Set Up Partisan Path for CCP Virus Package Vote

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) holds her weekly news conference in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center in Washington on Jan. 28, 2021. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The House of Representatives approved a budget resolution that would allow Congress to pass President Joe Biden’s CCP virus relief package without Republican backing.

The 218–212 vote on Feb. 3 was entirely along party lines, except for two Democrats, Reps. Ed Case (D-Hawaii) and Jared Golden (D-Maine), who sided with Republicans against the resolution. Rep. Ron Wright (R-Texas) missed the vote.