Rubio Comments On Congress' Failure To Combat The Zika Virus

Statement

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) issued the following statement regarding the Senate's failure today to approve emergency funding to combat the Zika virus:

"It's unforgivable that Congress has failed to pass any kind of legislation this summer to deal with the Zika virus. Whether it was the president's request, bipartisan proposals or this House-Senate compromise, I've supported every single effort to deal with Zika that has come up in the Senate, which is something few others in Congress can say. It's really unfortunate people could not come together on this public health crisis that keeps growing every day. One way or another, we will be back here to deal with this problem, and we'll be doing so under the worst circumstances that I've been warning about for months. Congress had a chance to get going on this problem before it really spirals out of control, and now it's setting itself up to come back here and deal with this as an even bigger full-blown public health emergency than it is today."

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