Democrats blocking 'common sense' fix for Zika. Congressman: They're refusing 'safe' and 'effective' solution that kills mosquito carrying virus

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Democrats blocking 'common sense' fix for Zika
Congressman: They're refusing 'safe' and 'effective' solution that kills mosquito carrying virus
Published: 10 hours ago
 

Democrats are insisting that Congress give President Obama every penny he’s asking for to effectively combat the Zika virus in the United States, congressional Republicans are pushing less costly legislation and a veterinarian-turned-congressman says education and common sense will do a lot more to protect women and children than more government spending.

Even more, Democrats are being accused of instinctively pursuing higher spending and impeding an effective response due to their loyalties to the environmental lobby.

Since the Zika threat emerged earlier this year, President Obama has asked for Congress to approve $1.9 billion in spending to assure an effective federal response. The GOP-controlled Senate approved a $1.1 billion package, while the House passed $622 million.

The House total is on top of another half-billion dollars moved around to address Zika.

“The White House, typically, wants to throw money at the situation as a knee-jerk reaction. We’ve already redirected over $500 million earlier this year. That wasn’t new spending. It was redirecting money,” said Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., who worked for many years as a veterinarian before coming to Congress.

“Then we passed another bill of around $600 million as you pointed out,” he told WND and Radio America. “That’s not new money. That’s money coming out of the Ebola account. They have over a billion dollars left in that account.”

Congressional Democrats are unsatisfied, with some insisting they will oppose any amount of money short of what Obama is requesting.

“I would not support inadequate funding to deal with the health-care catastrophe that could develop if we do not tackle the Zika virus in the right way,” said Rep. Xavier Becerra, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, to reporters.

Get the stunning e-book free from WND, “Emerging Diseases,” by Jane Orient, M.D.

House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., also rejects the lower amounts being offered by Republicans.

“They said it’s half a loaf. No, it’s half a shoe. You cannot get to where you need to be with half a shoe,” she said in comments recorded by the Hill.

Yoho said Democrats are locked into a number instead of what will actually reduce the Zika threat.

“To get into an argument of, ‘The president wants to spend more money so that’s right,’ versus just doing a controlled response to this, I think, would be the more prudent thing to do, and I think you’ll get as good if not better results,” Yoho said.

“Throwing money is not the solution. What you have to do is look at vector control, which would be the mosquito and do the proper type of sprayings at the right time of year, have mosquito repellents that are safe and non-toxic for pregnant mothers, and just use the common-sense approaches they we do in any kind of an outbreak.”

Listen to the WND/Radio America interview with Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla.:

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/democrats-blocking-common-sense-fix-for-zika/#siIrpBdmc7UJvdxp.99

[Norm Lenhart]

Democrats blocking 'common sense' fix for Zika
Congressman: They're refusing 'safe' and 'effective' solution that kills mosquito carrying virus

Keeping that damn fly alive is how Democrats kill brown people and control the populations their hero Margaret Sanger frowned upon without the fuss of Abortion protests.

What's the malaria count in Africa since they banned DDT? 60 million? 70 million?

[mountaineer]

From Speaker Paul Ryan's site:

Mosquitoes Carrying Zika Must Be Killed
May 24, 2016|Julia Slingsby

In the midst of a Zika threat, the federal government should not be making it harder for people to kill the mosquitoes that could carry it. That’s one thing we should all agree on—but that’s not how the Obama administration sees it.

Yesterday, the Obama administration came out in opposition to the House’s latest effort to fight Zika at its source. This flies in the face of a major recommendation from the Center for Disease Control for fighting Zika: “vector surveillance and control”—a huge part of which is spraying mosquitoes.

This is serious stuff—we’re not talking about annoyances at your summer barbecue. Mosquitoes are the carriers of life-threatening exotic diseases, among which are the Zika and West Nile viruses. Beyond the personal danger, the treatment of Americans with mosquito-borne illnesses also costs taxpayers millions of dollars each year.

But leave it to Obama's EPA to make a bad situation worse. Onerous new EPA regulations have completely hamstrung mosquito control activities. Despite the fact it’s already regulated, these duplicative permitting requirements have made it extremely expensive and nearly impossible for districts to control mosquito populations. Pile on litigation from extreme environmental groups, and simple paperwork violations for example that can cost $35,000 per day, according to the American Mosquito Control Association.

It’s simply too much for small businesses.  Leonard Felix of Olath Spray Service Inc. in Colorado testified before the House Small Business Committee, saying he was forced to shut down his business because of the costs and fear of frivolous lawsuits. Dean McClain of AG Flyers in Wyoming shuttered his mosquito control services because of the EPA’s requirement.

We cannot be passive in our fight against Zika, and we take the CDC's recommendation seriously.  Following earlier action to provide needed funding, today the House will consider H.R. 897, the Zika Vector Control Act, which clarifies congressional intent for use of pesticides to prevent diseases and eliminates overlapping permitting regulations—tearing down these barriers to killing mosquitoes.

Unfortunately, it looks like the CDC’s recommendation is less persuasive to the White House than these litigious, deep-pocketed environmental groups. Yesterday, the Obama administration said it “strongly opposes” the House bill, calling it “unnecessary.”

The House has already passed multiple bills that provide resources to the federal government for Zika treatment and vaccine development efforts. But, if we’re not getting at—and killing—these root carriers, then it’s going to be less effective at stopping Zika than throwing a Band-Aid on that bug bite in a swamp.

What could be more necessary than killing potentially disease-ridden mosquitoes in the midst of a Zika threat? It seems like the administration is putting the pockets of environmental interest groups ahead of the public.  We hope the administration reverses this disturbing position and supports H.R. 897. The health of the public is at stake.

See more at: http://www.speaker.gov/general/mosquitoes-carrying-zika-must-be-killed#sthash.6oMxFGcx.dpuf