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9/11 Responders & Survivors, Jon Stewart Join Members of Congress to Unveil the Bipartisan Never Forget the Heroes: Permanent Authorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act and Call for Swift Passage

Reps. Maloney, Nadler, King and Sens. Gillibrand, Gardner, Schumer announce bipartisan legislation to fully fund and permanently reauthorize the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund and prevent announced cuts to compensation awards.

Jon Stewart Blasts Congress’ Inaction On 9/11 First Responders Bill: ‘It’s Bulls**t’

The comedian visited Capitol Hill to demand lawmakers pass funding for sick 9/11 first responders and their families.

Watch: Jon Stewart joins lawmakers to call for 9/11 survivors bill to be passed into law

Former “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart joins lawmakers introducing the bipartisan Never Forget the Heroes: Permanent Authorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act and call for its swift passage.

Hear Jon Stewart’s message for lawmakers on 9/11 fund

Comedian and 9/11 first responders advocate Jon Stewart visited Capitol Hill to fight for a permanent bill that would provide 9/11 first responders and their families with financial assistance.

Jon Stewart praises Trump DOJ, pushes bipartisan bill to give 9-11 victims ‘the care they earned’

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Monday introduced a plan to permanently authorize the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund at full level, following the announcement of a funding shortfall revealed earlier this month…

An American duty: The bipartisan commitment to add money to the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund and make it permanent must succeed

Cory Gardner was just out of law school in Colorado, 1,700 miles away, when terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center on 9/11.

Jon Stewart: What 9/11 heroes need from Congress. Make the Victim Compensation Fund permanent, and fund it

Today I am in our nation’s capital. I don’t particularly enjoy coming down here. It is a town that has four 8th Sts., and none of them intersect.

Jon Stewart: What 9/11 heroes need from Congress. Make the Victim Compensation Fund permanent, and fund it

Today I am in our nation’s capital. I don’t particularly enjoy coming down here. It is a town that has four 8th Sts., and none of them intersect.

The continued pain and push for benefits for 9/11 survivors heads back to Congress

FBI agent Robert Roth’s death sentence was written the day of the worst terrorist attack on American soil — and carried out almost seven years later.

Renewing the fight for 9/11 health funds

Nearly half of the 15,000 FDNY firefighters, officers and medics who were working on 9/11 — and survived — have gotten sick from their exposure to the toxins that swirled around the World Trade center site, union officials said Friday.