Policy · 114th Congress
Zika Funding Gone by the End of September, HHS Says
Efforts to test Zika vaccines at NIH could stall when the agency exhausts the $47 million it received, which NIH projects will occur at the end of August.
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Efforts to test Zika vaccines at NIH could stall when the agency exhausts the $47 million it received, which NIH projects will occur at the end of August.
According to a list that the association provided, SFATA and its members held meetings with 47 lawmakers’ offices in the House and 32 in the Senate.
control proposals that are substantially similar to an NRA-backed proposal from Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, which the Senate failed to advance last week on a largely partisan vote, 53-47
California Democrat Dianne Feinstein’s amendment, which would allow the attorney general to stop gun purchases by those on terrorist watch lists, also failed after receiving 47 of the 60 votes needed
Also on Tuesday, the White House’s chief spokesman urged senators in both parties to support a $1.9 billion version of a Zika supplemental ; but that measure failed, 50-47, to pass a procedural
high-profile visits to Capitol Hill by the pope and the president to the humdrum of checking identification at doors for tens of thousands of staff, Capitol Police’s 1,729 sworn police officers protect a 47