Once again, federal funding for $1.1 billion to fight Zika is blocked in Congress.
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Politically, Republicans are pressing for additional investigations of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over her emails. “And in the coming months we can continue to look forward to making more progress”.
“It’s our insistence that any short-term [continuing resolution] include Zika and what we call the clean Zika bill, and they understand that”, Durbin said.
The vote needed 60 votes to pass.
“It seems that the Senate Democrats want a political issue, not a solution”, Grassley said.
Democratic lawmakers have refused to back the legislation because it strips more than half a billion dollars from a defunct Obamacare fund as well as more than $200 million from other unspent federal funds.
In response to the blocked Zika bill, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said, “If we don’t get new money, we won’t be able to do things at a pace that is necessary and appropriate to the urgency of this threat”.
“If you care about children ― and that’s the argument a lot of our conservative friends are making about dealing with Planned Parenthood ― if you care about them, wake up, man!”
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Tuesday that he thinks it would make sense to combine the budget and Zika talks. But Democrats have added no “poison pills” of their own to the bill. Rather than defund Planned Parenthood, it would simply not send any new money their way.
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The GOP’s language specifically says the grants can only be used by “health services provided by public health departments, hospitals, or reimbursed through public health plans”. “It is not the time to play political games and attach partisan amendments to a bill that could literally save lives”. The Planned Parenthood aspect has arguably been the most divisive part of the conference report. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), however, declined to say Thursday if his side would go along with the emerging deal, saying it would be up to his members to decide in coming weeks.
Reid said until the Judiciary Committee schedules confirmation hearings for the judge, Democrats would use the chamber’s rules to hold up action in Senate committees.
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“Zika is now well established in the United States with cases of local transmission by mosquitoes being reported in multiple areas of Florida, as well as the US territories”, the senators wrote.
