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Inaction on Zika is a public health crisis: As the virus spreads, Congress pinches pennies

Inaction on Zika is a public health crisis: As the virus spreads, Congress pinches pennies

Survey after survey has confirmed that a majority of Americans hold members of Congress in contempt for being self-serving and more concerned with raising campaign cash from their lobbyist paymasters than acting in the public interest.We have no better example of this than Congress' adjournment this summer without reaching a deal on $1.1 billion in critical funding to fight the spread of the mosquito-carried Zika virus.What we have here is another example of a callous disregard for women's health and, ironically, for the unborn children that millions of them are carrying, even as the Zika virus spreads.


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Zika Funding Delay in Congress Puts Americans at Risk, Obama Says

Zika Funding Delay in Congress Puts Americans at Risk, Obama Says

President Barack Obama urged Congress to make Zika funding its first priority after members return from a seven-week summer break, saying the delay is putting Americans at risk."[E]very day that Republican leaders in Congress wait to do their job, every day our experts have to wait to get the resources they need.That has real-life consequences," Obama said in his weekly radio address.

Inaction on Zika is a public health crisis: As the virus spreads, Congress pinches pennies