Subject: Fwd: Hillary Clinton Statement on the ​Senate Invoking Cloture on Bill to Fight the Zika Virus
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Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 17:59:31 -0700

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From: Hillary for America Press <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: May 17, 2016 at 8:58:20 PM EDT
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Subject: Hillary Clinton Statement on the ​Senate Invoking Cloture on Bill to Fight the Zika Virus

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Hillary 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:
​
"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]<mailto:[email-masked]>

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