Democrats blocked the bill because they say it included a provision to prevent funding for Planned Parenthood and no longer included a provision in the House bill banning Confederate flags from veterans’ cemeteries.
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The funding will likely be considered again as an addition to a stop-gap measure that must be approved by the end of this month in order to stave off a government shutdown.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen cares more about funneling taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood than she does about stopping the spread of the Zika virus. “Republicans were more interested in attacking Planned Parenthood and flying the Confederate flag ― can’t make that stuff up; that’s really the truth ― than protecting women and babies from this terrible virus”.
“They sent it back with all this unusual, weird stuff in it”.
“If that were something that could be guaranteed in the short term (continuing resolution) I think you’d see a majority of Freedom Caucus members supporting a short term strategy”, Meadows said, saying they believed it was “a reasonable request”. “They tried to disguise the fact that they wanted to eliminate Planned Parenthood”. Bill Nelson (D- Florida). “If they get bitten by a mosquito where they are in another state, now that mosquito is infected”, he said of the 2,722 infected Americans. The disease is linked to severe microcephaly, a serious birth defect where a baby’s head is much smaller than other babies’ heads of the same age, which can cause developmental delays, physical impairments and seizures among other medical conditions. “The cupboard is bare”.
But doing so would anger House conservatives who are calling for any funding bill to be pushed off to next year – giving a new Congress and administration say in the spending decisions and avoiding action by a lame-duck Congress after this November’s elections. Without a bill, federal agencies possibly will be shut down. Rep. David Jolly (R-Florida) spoke on the House floor holding a jar of mosquitos he had brought from his home state of Florida, which has locally-transmitted cases of Zika.
Grassley and Ernst supported a bill that would shortchange Zika research and treatment because it would prohibit any of the funding to be used by Planned Parenthood.
“It ought to be common sense that folks like me come to plead with our colleagues”.
Congress does not have time for political games.
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While you were out campaigning, fundraising or barbequing, however, the number of Zika cases in the US more than doubled to 2,700, and people infected with the virus have turned up in every state.
