The U.S. Senate came back on Tuesday from its longest summer recess in 60 years and the first thing it did was fail to pass a bill to address the growing Zika crisis.
The same bill failed twice earlier this summer due to partisan squabbling in an election year. Apparently, the arrival on the mainland of Zika-carrying mosquitos and the local infection thus far of 56 people in Florida alone in the past month has done little to move Washington’s entrenched positions.
