Menendez said that Zika is a national epidemic and that the decision to recess congress of the summer without implementing a plan to halt the spread was a failure on behalf of legislators.
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On Tuesday night, Democrats blocked a bill.
One day after failing to pass a $1.1 billion bill that would fund the fight to prevent Zika, lawmakers on both sides talked tough.
“Republicans continue to play politics with this crisis”, said Rep.
Earlier this week, the senate reached an impasse on a bill that would provide $1.1 billion in Zika relief to areas in the USA where the virus is a growing concern and vaccine research.
She echoed charges fellow Republican, Sen. “We are in discussions about how to work out some of the differences we had that led to Democrats filibustering Zika funding on multiple occasions”, McConnell said. Bill Nelson (D-FL) says while he too is hopeful, he feels Congressional leaders are making this political by forcing votes on a Republican-backed House measure that’s failed twice before. She lives in Miami, Fla., ground zero for the Zika virus in the United States. “I think trying to find some path forward in a year-end appropriations bill would make sense”.
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Senior senators showed light at the end of the tunnel after they revealed that a glitch pertaining to a fight over which health centers in Puerto Rico can use Zika funding, which was obstructing the $1.1 billion bill to combat the Zika virus, was likely to be dropped from the debate, according to Politico. And in a swipe at some of these conservative members, he said, “We spend a lot of time around here taking advice from members who have no intention voting for bills”.
Democrats are blocking the legislation over objections to what they charge are politically-motivated provisions added to the bill by Republicans, including language preventing the Zika funds from being used by Planned Parenthood and provisions relaxing use of certain pesticides.
Negotiations around a continuing resolution expected to include Zika funding are ongoing, but Senate leaders hope to bring the measure to the floor sometime next week.
There were 713 cases of Zika in Florida as of Tuesday. “Deal with it. Give us an up-or-down vote straight on Zika”, Biden said.
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Senior lawmakers say they expect Congress to provide Zika funding in a package that would also keep the govnerment from shutting down.
