House Majority Leader Calls for Senate to Pass $3T Aid Bill

The Heroes bill is a "very comprehensive" bill that ensures states, municipalities and cities are able to continue services, he said.

House lawmakers will also meet the last week of June to address making premiums and deductibles more affordable under the Affordable Care Act.

"The schedule in June is very unusual," Hoyer said. "These are the most unnormal of times, the most unique of times. Not only have we been confronted with a pandemic that is a once in a century pandemic, that has forced us to not have a recession or depression but to, in effect, put our economy on hold, or as somebody said 'put it in a coma,' and that's had extraordinary economic ramifications. Those ramifications are going to be with us for a very long period of time."

Hoyer said he "reserved the first three weeks [of June] to accommodate our new procedures," which allow for virtual hearings, markups and votes. "But it seems to be working well."

Hoyer noted that Congress passed "four major bills" dealing with COVID-19, all in a bipartisan fashion. "They didn't always start out bipartisan, but they ended up bipartisan."

He added: "There are really good people on both sides of the aisle. If we could get over this demand by both sides to be confrontational and make political points, we'd be more successful."

Lawmakers, Hoyer said, also have to be wary of being influenced by partisan bickering from outside groups. "We can't always get it our own way. We can't demand people do what we want them to do. So we give and take."

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