House and Senate leaders, who had been prepared to end the year without approving a new coronavirus aid bill, are now rushing to try to pass legislation in the next week.

Rising numbers of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have increased pressure on the leadership in both parties and forced the two sides to consider compromise legislation that has eluded Congress for months.

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