[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12298]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               FUND ZIKA

  (Mr. DEUTCH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I just returned after a weekend in south 
Florida where people wanted to talk about two things: remembering 9/11 
and wondering why Congress can't figure out how to find the necessary 
funding for Zika.
  This morning, Dr. Fauci of the NIH said that if we don't act, we are 
at risk of halting the investigation into coming up with a vaccine that 
can help prevent people from getting Zika.
  After 9/11, everyone in this country was able to come together as 
one. We all remember how that felt. My colleague, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, 
stood on the floor just now and talked about the bipartisan support for 
funding research and a response to Zika. In this partisan body, let's 
remember how that felt to stand together, and let's stand together for 
the people of south Florida and the people in this country and do the 
right thing and pass a clean Zika funding bill.

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