Returning from a seven-week break to the measure with which the last Senate session ended, Democrats voted unanimously to stop the legislation from moving forward and ending debate, opposing measures that would have blocked funding for reproductive health group Planned Parenthood and allowed Confederate flags to fly at military cemeteries.
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-Hillary Clinton: Furious the FBI didn’t recommend charges against their political rival over her private email server, Republicans now are demanding that the Justice Department open a new investigation into whether the Democratic presidential nominee lied during testimony a year ago before a House panel investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
The bill garnered 52 votes Tuesday, eight shy of the number it needed. That package isn’t offset, which a senior House appropriator said is important to the caucus.
CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said in an interview last week that the agency is almost out of money. There have been 2,687 total travel-associated cases nationwide.
Six months after President Raul Castro declared war on the Zika virus in Cuba, a militarized nationwide campaign of intensive mosquito spraying, monitoring and quarantine appears to be working.
A new study has found genetic fragments of Zika in the eyes and the tears of laboratory mice with the virus, a discovery scientists suggest may offer new understanding into how the disease is transmitted. People planning to have children are frightened at the thought of just one mosquito bite.
More Florida cases were announced Tuesday. Before the summer recess, a bill stalled in the Senate as Democrats objected to GOP demands that money come out of Ebola research and ObamaCare.
Mosquito season typically lasts through October and transmission could continue through that time period.
She echoed charges fellow Republican, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida). And time could be running out.
So what is Congress doing?
“I’d like to pay for all of it, but that’s something we’re going to have to work out”, he said.
“My message to both parties and both chambers for this month is simple and straightforward: Zika is not a game”. Even if the House votes to impeach Koskinen – the equivalent of formally charging him with a crime – the move is certain to go nowhere in the Senate, which has final say on removing an official from office. If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article. Especially when the women start having fetuses that are either brought to full term or not, that have microcephaly.
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The potential stalemate over spending is a headache for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., who would like to avoid any whiff of a shutdown threat just weeks before the election.
