Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this Zika Vector Control Act and want to commend Congressman Gibbs for his leadership in bringing this forward as we work here in the House to combat Zika. The House is doing a number of things this week. Number one, we are moving legislation to reprioritize money so that there will be a total of $1.2 billion of moneys allocated to combat Zika. But, in addition, while we are fighting Zika and giving not only Federal, but local agencies the resources they need to combat this terrible disease from spreading, we know, and CDC has told us, that it is spread by mosquitos. Mosquitos are the agents that spread Zika. So here we have got Congressman Gibbs identifying a problem where the EPA is making it harder to actually kill mosquitos. I come from south Louisiana. We have a lot of mosquitos in south Louisiana, and we don't like them. We actually spray using federally approved pesticides to kill mosquitos where they breed. Where do they breed, Mr. Speaker? They breed by water. They breed by sources of water. So you have got federally approved sprays and pesticides that are used to go and kill the mosquitos so that they can't spread Zika, and yet the EPA comes in and has a rule that makes it harder and more expensive to actually go kill mosquitos. All that Congressman Gibbs is saying is let's block that rule because local governments, by the way, still control this.…”