David Jolly: “I thank my colleague, Mr. Deutch. That is the urgency. My colleague, Mr. Deutch, mentioned his family, and birthday…”

“I thank my colleague, Mr. Deutch. That is the urgency. My colleague, Mr. Deutch, mentioned his family, and birthday wishes are in order. Congratulations. My wife and I just got married last year, and we are hoping to have a family ourselves. We live within 5 or 10 miles of one of the non-travel-related cases. Folks do understand the anxiety that creates for people in Florida who are hoping to have a family. Yesterday and the day before--and it created a bit of a buzz--I brought about 100 mosquitoes of the Aedes aegypti variety, which are capable of carrying Zika. Through working with the University of South Florida, we were able to get these mosquitoes here to Washington, D.C., because I wanted colleagues to understand the urgency of what happens to families in Florida when they are in the proximity of these mosquitoes. When I gave a speech with these mosquitoes, do you know what the American people said--hundreds and thousands of people? ``Release them.'' ``Smash the jar.'' Do you want to see Congress work fast? Expose Zika mosquitoes in this Chamber. We would shut it down. We would scrub the Chamber. People would get tested. That is the anxiety. That is the urgency. It doesn't know partisanship. It is okay that we have had this debate initially over what the right response is--the President's proposal, the House's, or the Senate's. That is okay. That is doing our job, but it is not doing our job when we let the fighting and debating lead us to do nothing.…”