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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.
‘Your Turn to Step Up and Not Forget’ 9/11
This Monday comedian Jon Stewart and the advocates for hundreds of thousands of World Trade Center first responders and survivors will be in the nation’s capital to kick-off a national lobbying effort…
9/11 victims affected by new compensation plan take to DC
Victims of 9/11 and their advocates will head to Washington on Monday to demand reversal of a shocking new announcement that future victims’ compensation payments will be slashed as much as 70 percent.
9/11 first responders’ benefits to be slashed as fund runs out of money
Retired NYPD Sgt. Andrew Nelson knows that come 9/11, politicians will “wrap themselves up in the flag and say never forget.”
What’s mere money when 9/11 heroes gave their lives and their health? (commentary)
This is what we mean when we say “never forget.”