Dems Block Zika Virus Funding Because It Does Not Fund Planned Parenthood

[easyt65]

1. Why do we need to allocate any money for the Zika Virus? 2 weeks ago Obama took $500 MILLION out of existing funds allocated for Ebola to go to the Zika Virus..... OH YEAH, THAT'S BECAUSE OBAMA STOLE THAT MONEY AND GAVE IT TO THE UN TO HELP FUND ITS NEW GLOBAL WARMING INITIATIVE!

2. Dems killed the Zika Virus legislation because they were not allowed to slip in funding for killing babies. NICE.

Senate Democrats Block Zika Funding Because It Doesn’t Fund Planned Parenthood - Breitbart

 

[jknowgood]

Wow, liberals are hateful people if their agenda doesn't get represented. They also hate children, Obama will cut education funding if boys can't shower with girls. If they don't get their way they will take their ball home.

 

[tyroneweaver]

Why would dems block it. Obama diverts funds where he wants em to go anyway.

 

[ElmerMudd]

1. Why do we need to allocate any money for the Zika Virus? 2 weeks ago Obama took $500 MILLION out of existing funds allocated for Ebola to go to the Zika Virus..... OH YEAH, THAT'S BECAUSE OBAMA STOLE THAT MONEY AND GAVE IT TO THE UN TO HELP FUND ITS NEW GLOBAL WARMING INITIATIVE!

2. Dems killed the Zika Virus legislation because they were not allowed to slip in funding for killing babies. NICE.

Senate Democrats Block Zika Funding Because It Doesn’t Fund Planned Parenthood - Breitbart

Not true, the funds come from Ebola funding and the affordable care act.
Pulling money fro much needed healthcare to fund other much needed healthcare does not work.
Why don't they lay off about 200 legislators and use the savings to fund Zika.

 

[waltky]

Obama needs to talk to `em like LBJ did...

Obama Calls on Congress to Pass Zika Prevention Bill Before It Adjourns
July 01, 2016 - President Barack Obama said Friday that an effective vaccine for the Zika virus could be developed in “fairly short order” if Congress were to quickly approve the budget needed for the research and the vaccine itself.

The president made the remarks after being briefed at the White House by top officials of Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. Obama said that for a vaccine to be widely available, it has to be tested to make sure it is safe and effective.

Researchers are in the developing and testing phase of work on a vaccine to guard against the mosquito-borne virus. Obama said that if the effort was well-funded, he was “fairly confident” an effective vaccine could be developed before the virus spreads to the continental United States.

Dallas County Mosquito Lab microbiologist Spencer Lockwood sorts mosquitoes collected in a trap in Hutchins, Texas, that had been set up near the location of a confirmed Zika virus infection​

The U.S. Zika cases reported so far have all involved people who contracted the virus outside the United States, or were infected through unprotected sex with an infected partner. There have not yet been any cases reported of local transmission of the virus in the United States.

The Obama administration has submitted a budget request of $1.9 billion to Congress, and the president is trying to press lawmakers to pass a Zika prevention bill before they leave for summer vacation. Obama criticized them for “playing politics” with public health.

According to the CDC, seven infants have been born with birth defects related to the Zika virus in the U.S. as of June 23. There have also been four pregnancy losses in the U.S. involving Zika and one in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, the agency said.

Obama Calls on Congress to Pass Zika Prevention Bill Before It Adjourns

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Texas Health Officials Prepare for Zika, but Local Efforts Tight
June 30, 2016 — The poorest parts of Houston remind Dr. Peter Hotez of some of the neighborhoods in Latin America hardest hit by Zika. Broken window screens. Limited air conditioning. Trash piles that seem to re-appear even after they're cleaned up.

On a hot, humid day this month, Hotez pointed at one pile that included old tires and a smashed-in television with water pooling inside. It was a textbook habitat for the mosquitoes that carry and transmit the Zika virus, and one example of the challenge facing public health officials. "I'm showing you Zika heaven," said Hotez, the tropical medicine dean at Baylor College of Medicine. Hotez and other tropical disease specialists are most concerned about impoverished urban areas and along the Gulf Coast, where the numbers of the mosquito that spreads Zika are expected to spike. Texas already has dealt with dengue fever, transmitted by the same mosquito. Zika causes only a mild and brief illness, at worst, in most people. But it can cause fetal death and severe brain defects in the children of women infected during pregnancy.

So far, Texas officials have reported 48 people infected with Zika, all associated with travel. In one case, the virus was sexually transmitted by someone who had been infected abroad. Public health officials have spent months preparing for what they are certain will be at least some locally transmitted cases. "It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when," said Dr. Umair Shah, the executive director of the Harris County public health department. Florida and other states in the South where the Aedes aegypti mosquito is present also are taking steps to prepare. In Florida, for example, Gov. Rick Scott used his emergency powers last week to authorize spending up to $26.2 million for Zika.

Dr. Peter Hotez, Dean of the Baylor College of Tropical Medicine, shows an Associated Press reporter and video journalist areas of Houston's 5th Ward that may be at high risk for mosquitoes capable of transmitting the Zika virus in Houston, Texas​

His action comes as Congress remains stalemated on President Barack Obama's $1.9 billion proposal to fight the virus. A scaled-back $1.1 billion Republican-drafted measure was blocked in the Senate on Tuesday by Democrats opposed to its denial of new funding for Planned Parenthood clinics in Puerto Rico, where there already are more than 1,800 locally acquired cases, and to easing rules on pesticide spraying. In Texas, major cities have sophisticated mosquito screening programs and years of dealing with other mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue and West Nile virus. But local authorities in most of the state have limited or no mosquito surveillance. The mosquitoes they do capture are typically sent to outside labs, and getting results can take weeks. The smallest counties often have a single person driving around conducting surveillance — "Chuck in a truck," Hotez calls it.

The state health department has spent more than $400,000 since the start of the year to expand its lab capacity and to buy mosquito traps. It also launched a $2 million Zika awareness campaign. Shah said there are cuts that can be made, "but there comes a point where you stretch people too much." In Harris County, which encompasses Houston and is the third-most populous county in the U.S., officials aren't waiting for the federal government. They purchased their own testing machines and have retrofitted two labs to run tests only for Zika to get results faster. Mosquito traps are set out on lawns and inside sewers in more than 250 designated areas. Thus far, no mosquitoes have tested positive for Zika.

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[easyt65]

Obama stole $500 million for zika already and gave it to the UN. If he wants more money 'for zika' let him go ask the UN for it.

 

[kiwiman127]

Breibart? Easy, you just lap up their bullshit, like a hungry calf sucking on it's mother's teat. What a tool!

 

[jillian]

1. Why do we need to allocate any money for the Zika Virus? 2 weeks ago Obama took $500 MILLION out of existing funds allocated for Ebola to go to the Zika Virus..... OH YEAH, THAT'S BECAUSE OBAMA STOLE THAT MONEY AND GAVE IT TO THE UN TO HELP FUND ITS NEW GLOBAL WARMING INITIATIVE!

2. Dems killed the Zika Virus legislation because they were not allowed to slip in funding for killing babies. NICE.

Senate Democrats Block Zika Funding Because It Doesn’t Fund Planned Parenthood - Breitbart

still here, troll? from early this morning and late last night and the day before and the day before, all day every day?

maybe you wingnuts should stop putting unrelated riders on bills to shut them down.

now be quiet and stop posting garbage from the insane liars at beitbart

 

[SwimExpert]

Zika funding is sexist.

 

[easyt65]

Not 'Commander and Chief' - It's 'Liar and Thief':

"The Obama administration has taken $500 million appropriated by Congress to fight the Zika virus to fund the United Nations Green Climate Fund, which gives foreign countries money for green energy projects."

Senator: Obama Steals From Zika Victims To Fund UN Climate Programs

 

[Votto]

1. Why do we need to allocate any money for the Zika Virus? 2 weeks ago Obama took $500 MILLION out of existing funds allocated for Ebola to go to the Zika Virus..... OH YEAH, THAT'S BECAUSE OBAMA STOLE THAT MONEY AND GAVE IT TO THE UN TO HELP FUND ITS NEW GLOBAL WARMING INITIATIVE!

2. Dems killed the Zika Virus legislation because they were not allowed to slip in funding for killing babies. NICE.

Senate Democrats Block Zika Funding Because It Doesn’t Fund Planned Parenthood - Breitbart

How dare you!

Questioning our supreme leader?

This can't possibly still be legal, can it?

 

[BluesLegend]

Liberals want to control the Zika virus by killing babies in the womb?

 

[Votto]

Liberals want to control the Zika virus by killing babies in the womb?

They just figure that if more people get the Zika virus, more will have abortions and more people who have abortions, will lessen their carbon footprint on Mother Earth.

It's insane, I know, but I swear this is how they think. I've talked to enough to know.

 

[BluesLegend]

Liberals want to control the Zika virus by killing babies in the womb?

They just figure that if more people get the Zika virus, more will have abortions and more people who have abortions, will lessen their carbon footprint on Mother Earth.

It's insane, I know, but I swear this is how they think. I've talked to enough to know.

Know this, if they had the votes in congress the left would provide government funded abortions on demand. I'm surprised the bloodthirsty baby killers haven't made a sport out of watching abortions and betting on how fast the defenseless baby dies while having its limbs ripped off.