[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7412]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           ZIKA VIRUS CRISIS

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, 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.

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