Dems-GOP squabble stalls Zika funding
Ted Barrett
The rhetorical attacks were surprisingly harsh even for this divided Congress as each side blasted the other’s handling of the issue as motivated more by base politics than the health care needs of women who if infected with Zika can have children with serious birth defects.
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