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Kirk: Dump Riders Attached To Veterans and Zika Funding

Statement

By: Mark Kirk
By: Mark Kirk
Date: Sept. 6, 2016
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care Government Budget and Spending Legislative Branch

U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies (MilCon-VA), today issued the following statement:

"Americans have waited too long for Washington to pass the $74.4 billion funding bill for veterans and $1.1 billion to stop the spread of Zika. The House should drop the poison pill language so we can pass a clean bill immediately," said Senator Kirk.


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