Mr. President, I would just say to the majority leader that one of the items in his proposal takes money away from Puerto Rico. By seeing the unanimous vote we had--not unanimous--the overwhelming vote last week for the financial…

Not only the good fortune but the great privilege, and now I have the opportunity to work on the policy for the Nation's space program.

Through the Chair, Mr. President, I would answer the Senator. Yes, my family came to Florida right after Florida was acquired as a territory from Spain.

It is a political message that is so reviled by the people of America. They want us to get down to the business. If Senator McConnell had a flood or an earthquake in Kentucky, we would all support him with emergency funding to meet that…

It is true, and not only is it true that the President requested it, but immediately, a whole bunch of us out here filed a bill and brought it to the attention of the Senate, and it is now 5 months later.

Amen to that, and here we are dithering with these political games. We wonder why the American public is so turned off when they see what is going on up here, and here is one of the very best examples of an emergency.

Turkey's actions have directly strengthened groups like ISIS, al-Qaeda, and al-Nusra.

our number one priority is, and should be, defeating ISIS, al-Qaeda, and these other jihadist groups.

Not only that, but with bipartisan support early on in this whole dialogue. And now we are seeing the resistance of the majority leader to take up the very bill that passed with those overwhelming numbers of bipartisan support.

I say to the Senator from Illinois, with 276 cases of infection, with 43 pregnant women that we know of just in the State of Florida, is it any wonder that 5 months ago, when we filed the $1.9 billion request of the administration, my…

Not only is it true, but with 100 Senators, when something passes with 89 votes, that is a pretty strong consensus.

Not only is that true, I say to the Senator, but there is the fact that this is an emergency, which has always been dealt with in the history of this Senate as a bipartisan thing to meet the situation of the emergency, and now this has…

Mr. President, I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New York.

Not only is that true, but it is also indicative of how ideologically driven and how partisan driven so much of the activity here in this Capitol building is, which is what is very distasteful to the American people.

That, of course, I say to the Senator from Illinois, is such a poor, poor choice.

There is a direct link, I would say, Mr. President, in response to the Senator, between a pregnant woman being infected with the Zika virus and the probability that she will deliver a child who is deformed.

If you think of the building of the Panama Canal, mosquitoes transmitted malaria. So mosquitoes are a vector which transmits a lot of diseases. This strain of mosquito can lay its larvae in stagnant water contained in something as small as…

Mr. President, reserving the right to object--first of all, did I hear an objection from the majority leader to my unanimous consent request? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader has not yet objected. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I…