This week, health officials reported there are now more than 400 travel related cases of Zika in Florida along with 21 locally transmitted cases.  The growing number of infections in Florida follows the first Zika-related death in Texas.
 
You’ll recall in June, I sent a letter to U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan expressing the urgency of this issue for states like Florida.  However, Congress failed to pass a Zika funding package before breaking for the district work period.  
 

This is our Paris. This is the week we mourn together. As one nation. This week we know no party, we know no prejudice. This is the week we all as Americans suffer loss together, come together, and resolve together that we will not fall to the architects of terror.

On Friday, U.S. Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla., highlighted the Thin Blue Line Act that he introduced last year.