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A note from our buddy Bo, a 9-11 first responder, who has shared info about the Zadroga WTC health bill that is VERY disturbing if it does not get passed. See if from his note and a NYDN article below. And please contact your legislature to support this bill! Contact Bo for more details...
-Aaron
Our City is spending hundreds of millions to DENY it's responsibilities to those who are now suffering so that we could move on from what happened on 9/11/01.
One small example (which I bet many of you are not aware of) is the settlement agreement which the City has offered to SOME of those who have sued for proper compensation. It has only recently been in the news.
It only cover's a fraction of those who have been effected.
The really sick part is that, over 5 year ago, the City was given (by our Federal government) 1 billion dollars to be used to "help" compensate all those injured in the aftermath of 9-11.
Instead , the City has spent over 200 million dollars (in legal fee's alone) and wasted 5 years to DENY any and all responsibility to any of those who worked @ Ground Zero.Paying wealthy politicians and lawyers to discuss, delay and deny what we all know is our government's responsibility.
Is that what you want to be done with YOUR money?
If this bill doesn't get passed by this "lame duck" Senate, it may never get passed.
Call Congress For The First Responders
First: Please Call Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at 1-202-224-3542. The message to Him is to Urge him to place S1334 on the calendar for The First week of december. We need him to understand that this is an AMERICAN ISSUE and not a Democratic or Republican Issue.
Secondly: Please Call Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at 1-202-224-2541. The mesage to him is to urge All Rebuplicans to vote Yea on S1334 to Help 9/11 First Responders. We need him to understand that this is an AMERICAN ISSUE and not a Democratic or Republican Issue.*********
Local politicians must rally round to push Zadroga WTC health bill through the Senate
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/11/15/2010-11-15_a_call_to_arms.html#ixzz15NNjxdpp
The U.S. Senate reconvenes today for the start of a lame-duck session that will decide whether the United States fulfills the nation's long overdue obligations to sickened 9/11 rescue and recovery workers.
New York Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand must drive and cajole and lobby into passage the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act.
So, too, New Jersey Sens. Frank Lautenberg and Bob Menendez, Connecticut Sens. Christopher Dodd and Joe Lieberman and Connecticut Sen.-elect Richard Blumenthal.
So, too, former New York Gov. George Pataki, current Gov. Paterson and incoming Gov. Andrew Cuomo. So, too, GOP star and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has among his constituents hundreds of sickened 9/11 responders.So, too, Rudy Giuliani and Mayor Bloomberg, former and current occupants of City Hall.
So, too, the entire New York City House delegation, plus Republican Pete King of Long Island and incoming Staten Island Republican Rep. Michael Grimm.
It's all hands on deck now that the bill will either get a senatorial thumbs-up or evaporate into oblivion with next year's start of a Congress dominated by wrongly recalcitrant Republicans.
The lame-duck session will be a contentious affair, likely dominated by battling over the extension, or lack thereof, of Bush era tax cuts. Look for the GOP's coming ascendancy to infuse the proceedings with hyperpartisanship.The Zadroga bill must be spared this scourge.
This is one piece of legislation that must be beyond Washington's paralytic, all-or-nothing warfare. It seeks only to provide health care and compensation to the men and women in all 50 states who rallied to serve their country at Ground Zero after the terror attack - and who paid with their health or their lives.
Will the Senate's Republican minority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, turn his back on cops, firefighters and civilian volunteers whose lungs were destroyed as they labored in the toxic shroud over The Pile? He should know that 69 Kentuckians are signed up with the World Trade Center health registry.
Will the GOP dispatch the bill with procedural maneuvers, insisting that it must pass not by a majority, but by 60 votes? That would be treachery.
As Norm Ornstein, a scholar at the consevative-leaning American Enterprise Institute, wrote recently in the Daily News, the Zadroga bill appears to have support among more than half the Senate. That's the bar it must be held to.Time is of the essence. The session could last a mere two weeks. Passed by the House last month, the measure must come to the floor quickly.
Senate panels have heard reams of testimony on these very issues over the past six years. The information is all in the record, as are too many illnesses and too many deaths.
The time for talking is over. The time for collective action is now by Schumer, Gillibrand, Lautenberg, Menendez, Dodd, Lieberman, Blumenthal, Pataki, Paterson, Cuomo, Christie, Giuliani, Bloomberg, King, Grimm and for all Democrats and Republicans alike.This is a cause far greater than party or momentary advantage. This is American decency. Make it happen together.
...elevation, not just inebriation...