Tag: Zika Virus

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is threatening to shut down the government's efforts against the mosquito-borne and sexually transmitted virus, which can cause horrible birth defects in utero and has already become a major problem in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Dems don’t let the Zika crisis go to waste

Washington Examiner · July 13, 2016 4:01 am

—œWhat the Republicans are asking for has very little support over here ...,—£ Harry Reid said. (AP Photo)

Reid: Senate Dems will block Zika funding again

Susan Ferrechio · July 11, 2016 9:33 pm

Republicans are asking President Obama to accept a bill to end a permit requirement for mosquito spraying. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

GOP warns Obama: Action on Zika needed this week

Robert King · July 11, 2016 7:30 pm

Congress next week will make another attempt at clearing a Zika funding bill for President Obama's signature, but it's likely lawmakers will leave for the summer without taking action. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Congress crams schedule in final week before big break

Susan Ferrechio · July 11, 2016 9:00 am

It's not clear exactly why Zika-laden mosquitoes haven't started carrying the virus from one person to another, other than the right combination of factors haven't come together. (AP Photo)

When Zika is expected to hit the U.S.

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 11, 2016 4:01 am

Grassley demanded the FBI release the "actual evidence" gathered in its year-long probe of Clinton's email. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Grassley: Why is Zika money left?

Robert King · July 8, 2016 9:32 pm

The back-and-forth showed that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid are clearly aware of the larger political stakes of these debates. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

McConnell and Reid fight for ‘the last word’ on spending bills

Joel Gehrke · July 8, 2016 5:27 am

Democrats lambasted Republicans Thursday for refusing to allocate Zika funding the way they want. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Dems lambast GOP over Zika funding

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 7, 2016 5:41 pm

The bill would allow that spending only in the next fiscal year, which starts Oct. 1. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

GOP proposes $390 million in new Zika funding for 2017

Pete Kasperowicz · July 7, 2016 12:25 am

Senate Democrats say they will block a Zika funding measure that the Republican majority plans to call up for a vote in the coming days. "It is so bad," Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said of the House version of the bill. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Reid blames ‘bizarre’ GOP House for Zika fight

Susan Ferrechio · July 6, 2016 7:51 pm

From left, Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., confer before speaking with reporters on Capitol Hill on June 29. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

In blocked Zika funding, familiar fights emerge

Susan Ferrechio · July 5, 2016 4:01 am

Funding would go towards 53 state, city and U.S. territory health departments in areas that are at risk. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Feds deliver $25 million to states to fight Zika

Robert King · July 1, 2016 4:31 pm