It fell short, 52-46.
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“The person who can deliver a Zika funding bill is Mitch McConnell”, Nelson said. Congress needs to stop playing politics with the health of the millions of families living in areas that are affected by mosquitoes carrying the virus. “We’ll have to negotiate so we can get the same bill passed in the House and Senate”, Mr. Diaz-Balart said.
Bennet’s Republican challenger for the Senate seat, El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn, did not immediately respond to request for comment. They don’t want to let a post-election, lame duck session of Congress make the year’s spending decisions because they say retiring lawmakers who no longer must face voters are more inclined to accept wasteful spending. On Tuesday evening, the Senate will hold a repeat vote on the Republicans’ Zika bill that Democrats already blocked. But before then, they must ensure the government keeps running after its current funding expires on midnight on September 30.
“Before he left on his vacation, Senator Isakson refused to vote for funding to combat Zika unless it also cut funding for Planned Parenthood”, Barksdale campaign manager Dave Hoffman said.
There are 2 comments on the CBS News story from Sunday Sep 4, titled Congress returns for abbreviated pre-Election Day session.
There’s a lot on the docket, but there’s only one thing that Congress must do in the coming month: Figure out a way to keep the government open before spending legislation expires October 1.
Lawmakers could choose to add the extra Zika money to the stopgap spending bill they must pass to keep the government open beyond September 30 because they couldn’t agree on how to dole out federal funding between defense and domestic programs earlier in the year.
Republicans and Democrats have spent their recess blaming each other for the failure to agree on a funding bill, but a USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll released Monday showed strong public support for new Zika finding. Among them was a Republican provision to deny money to Puerto Rican affiliates of Planned Parenthood.
And third, Democrats opposed a provision that would loosen environmental regulations for pesticides for 180 days in an effort to control the spread of mosquitoes.
“But nevertheless we’re going to work through these issues and I’m sure we’ll have a successful outcome to make sure just that the trains are running on time while we negotiate individual spending bills throughout the fall”, the Republican leader said.
“Even though the risk of local transmission is low, we still need to have the infrastructure in place to detect cases of microcephaly”, Jennifer Brown said in a recent interview, the state public health veterinarian.
The defense bill, meanwhile, is caught in a furious battle sparked by a Republican move to use emergency war funds to try to artificially increase the basic Pentagon budget by $16 billion next year.
The Obama administration and its Democratic allies oppose the idea, saying if Republicans want more money for defense, domestic programs will have to receive an equal boost.
On the Zika virus, which has spread over the summer and is linked to birth defects, Ryan said, “I do believe we’ll find some kind of resolution”.
Most of the discussions and negotiations will center around funding to fight the Zika virus and dealing with FY2017 appropriations to avoid a government shutdown.
As Congress returns to work from a seven-week recess, Speaker Paul Ryan is promising a spending bill by the end of the month to keep the government operating.
Tuesday also marked the re-opening of the Capitol rotunda after a year-long restoration.
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Numerous 40 members of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus favor that second approach, insisting that it would prevent Democrats and more moderate Republican appropriators from pressing for extra spending and concessions to special interest groups just ahead of the Christmas and New Year’s holiday.
