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“I appreciate the chairman's eloquent remarks. However, I want to emphasize again that this is an emergency. People are severely, severely, being impacted because of the Zika virus. This is an emergency. We should be doing it immediately. I understand that it may be tempting to transfer money from another account. However, to have to find offsets here when people are suffering, dying, perhaps having deformed infants doesn't make any sense now. I would just say in closing, I thank the gentleman for his concern, and I do hope that we can pass this emergency supplemental as soon as possible because so much of where the money is going to go is long- range planning. Vaccines. We have to make sure that we prevent additional cases of Zika, and developing a vaccine can't be done in a month or 2 months. It takes time. So if, in fact, the administration has requested $1.9 billion, and we have responded, and the administration has responded to the very sincere questions provided to us by the chair, Chairman Rogers of the committee, we think it has been documented very carefully. I would ask again my colleagues to consider that this is an emergency, $1.9 billion is what has been documented in detail. It is all in writing. I thank the gentleman for listening.”