NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – If Congress fails to reach a budget deal, automatic across the board cuts in January would slash $38 million from the Zadroga Act, which helps care for sick 9/11 responders. Read More :
Learn MoreLOWER MANHATTAN — Federal funds that are supposed to help sick 9/11 first responders should not go toward filling government budget gaps instead, politicians said at a press conference on Monday. Read More:
Learn MoreLawmakers representing Lower Manhattan are strongly protesting a looming national deficit reduction measure poised to cut millions of dollars from the James L. Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. Read More :
Learn MoreRepublican and Democratic leaders in Congress received a plea by authors of the Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act asking them to avoid any federal funding cuts to the World Trade Center Health Program and the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund that would be triggered by the automatic sequestration of federal expenditures should Congress fail to enact deficit cutting measures by Jan. 2, 2013. Read More :
Learn MoreJust weeks after the nation memorialized the Sept. 11 terror attacks and a federal agency announced more than 50 types of cancer would be covered by a landmark Sept. 11 health care bill, lawmakers are now worried there will be fewer funds to go around. Read More :
Learn MoreJohn Howard, MD, Administrator for the WTC Health Program and Director of the National Institute on Occupational Safety and Health, announced that treatment for many different kinds of cancer will be available at the WTC Health Program as a result of a final rule published by the federal government. Read More : http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/wtc/html/news/09102012.shtml
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Learn MoreJon Stewart is less than a week away from retiring from The Daily Show, but he’s already thinking about his next act: crusading this fall in Washington for the Sept. 11 first responders. Read More : http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/07/jon-stewarts-next-act-lobbyist-000179?hp=t4_r
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