Subject: Hillary Clinton Statement on the ​Senate Invoking Cloture on Bill to Fight the Zika Virus
From: Hillary for America Press <[email-masked]>
To: Hillary for America Press <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 20:58:20 -0400
List-Id: <nationalpress2016.hillaryclinton.com>

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*Hi*
*llary Clinton Statement on the ​Senate Invoking Cloture on Bill to Fight
the Zika Virus*

*Hillary Clinton released the following statement on the ​invoking of
cloture for a bill that would appropriate $1.1 billion in emergency funding
to fight the Zika virus. This virus has already infected more than 1,200
people in the United States, with the biggest impact felt in Puerto Rico,
and caused microcephaly in hundreds of thousands of babies born around the
world:*
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"Today’s Senate vote was a necessary first step to combat the spread of the
Zika virus. As I have said for months, Zika is a looming public health
crisis that demands urgent action, and the upcoming mosquito season will
only make the problem worse. The Republican House of Representatives must
stop playing political games and pass this bill immediately.

"I am disappointed that the Senate did not appropriate President Obama’s
full $1.9 billion request, and that it has taken Congress months to act.
Unfortunately, unconscionable delays of this kind are business as usual for
Republicans in Congress, who have failed time and again to respond to
pressing public health emergencies, from the Flint water crisis to the
deadly opioid epidemic. Rather than scramble to respond crisis by crisis,
we need a broad, national, forward-looking strategy to protect public
health, invest in research, develop platform technologies and vaccines, and
work with global partners so that critical resources can reach those who
desperately need them."

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For Immediate Release, May 17, 2016
Contact: [email-masked]

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