[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12613]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           ZIKA VIRUS FUNDING

  Mr. CARPER. Let me just add a P.S. on Zika funding, which was 
discussed here earlier today. We had a bipartisan roundtable in the 
Homeland Security Committee on Zika funding not long ago. Two reasons 
we need to resolve this funding issue are, No. 1, that we would have 
money to continue development of a vaccine--that is the single most 
important thing--and, No. 2, to provide for contraception and family 
planning. Those are two of the most important things for us to do as we 
try to avoid this endemic.
  I thank my Republican friends for allowing me to speak on their time.
  With that, I yield the floor.

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