[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5277]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             VOTE FOR EMERGENCY FUNDING TO FIGHT ZIKA VIRUS

  (Mr. RUIZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. RUIZ. Mr. Speaker, the Zika virus results in devastating human 
illness, like small, deformed brains in infants and paralyzing 
neurodegenerative diseases. It has already infected over 900 people in 
the United States and its territories, and it is just a matter of time 
before it will rapidly spread in the United States.
  Mr. Speaker, Congress needs to do its job and protect the health 
security of the American people and vote for emergency funding to fight 
Zika now before we adjourn and before it is too late. Listen to the 
scientists, to the public experts, and to the CDC. All of them are 
echoing the same warning. Funding is imperative to prevent the spread 
of Zika, and it is our responsibility, our moral obligation, as Members 
of Congress, to protect the public against this potential crisis.
  What are we waiting for? The House should not adjourn until we have 
passed H.R. 5044, the emergency supplemental on the Zika virus.

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