On the recordMay 25, 2016
As we go home for the Memorial Day commemoration to honor the fallen in battle, as we go home to commemorate the next step in the lives of many of the graduates in our district, it is shameful that we have not completed our work on the full funding to fight the Zika virus crisis and respond to the President's request for $1.9 billion. Before I left my district on Monday, we had a major press conference with the mayor, the county commissioner, doctors, and others expressing their apprehension and concern about the dangerousness of the Zika virus. We are trying to inform our constituents, but we are also pleading for resources to clean up sitting water and tires and to be able to continue the research for a vaccine. One of our experts indicated that they didn't know how dangerous the Zika virus will be. Madam Speaker, it is important that we do our job. It is appropriate to take the President's request and pass it--$1.9 billion--to do our job to fight the Zika virus. ____________________
