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9/11 Health Bill Sponsors Lead Bipartisan Tri-State Area Delegation in Telling Mulvaney to Stay Away from 9/11 Health Program
Representatives Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and Peter King (R-NY), the original sponsors of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Reauthorization Act of 2015, today led a bipartisan group of 32 other members…
9/11 hero who lost half his foot fighting for ground zero workers
If “devastation, destruction and carnage” has a smell, that’s what engulfs one 9/11 first responder when he closes his eyes, plunging him back into the horror of 16 years ago.
Trump Administration Threatens 9-11 Victims
Just when you thought the Trump administration could not become more incompetent, foolish, heartless and unAmerican, they take the next step.
Jon Stewart: Mick Mulvaney is “screwing up” health care for 9/11 first responders
Stewart congratulates Mulvaney for a “special kind of incompetence”
9/11 Health Bill Sponsors, Jon Stewart, Advocates Call on Mulvaney to Leave World Trade Center Health Program Alone
/11 Health Program beneficiaries and advocates came together at the Capitol today to demand that Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney withdraw his ill-thought out proposal to separate the World Trade Center Health Program…
President’s budget proposal worries 9/11 responders
Proposed changes to the World Trade Center Health Program have Sept. 11 first responders worried about their future health care as Ground Zero-related complications continue to affect them.
Jon Stewart, 9/11 first responders take health care fight to Capitol Hill
Former ‘Daily Show’ host Jon Stewart joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers and 9/11 first responders on Capitol Hill Monday to demand the Office of Management and Budget leave their health care alone.
Rep. Peter King, others denounce proposed Zadroga changes
King was among New York members of Congress who criticized a proposed change in leadership of the federal health program for 9/11 first responders.
Comedian Jon Stewart accuses White House of ‘screwing’ 9/11 first responders
Program protects those who worked at ‘ground zero’