Originally Posted by rickair7777

Congress can do whatever they want. They could call an emergency session at 0200 tonight and vote to pass the law, and Joe could sign it after breakfast.

That's not typically how they do business though, so I'm sure there would be the usual staff and committee process for something like this. The one time I'm aware of that a vote was taken and passed within hours was when they declared war on Japan on Dec 8th.

Also foriegn countries might have relevant medical data but there are labor, business, and political issues to consider too. It's a tough issue because businesses want it, so that makes it bad. But some union workers also want it, which makes it good. And some other other union workers (and the victim's families) don't want it, which makes it all very confusing.

Hard to say but my SWAG is that this will have to get chewed on for a couple years, and it will depend on how bad the air travel situation gets... bad enough and the pols will want to something just for the sake of appearing to doing something.