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Title: Senate Passes Health-Care Bill for Sept. 11 First Responders
Source:
Bloomberg
URL Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010- ... ll-seeks-changes-to-costs.html
Published: Dec 22, 2010
Author: Jonathan D. Salant and James Rowley
Post Date: 2010-12-22 15:12:13 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 1527
Comments: 6
The U.S. Senate approved legislation to help those who responded to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City. The path for approval on a voice vote was secured earlier today when Senate Republicans agreed to drop their opposition to the legislation. “The Christmas miracle we’ve been looking for has arrived,” Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, New York Democrats, in a statement. The bill provides for $4.3 billion in additional aid over five years, with $1.5 billion for health benefits and $2.7 billion for compensation, said Senator Tom Coburn, an Oklaahoma Republican who had been opposing the bill because of cost concerns. The House initially earmarked $7.5 million and the Senate was considering a $6.2 billion bill. In addition, Coburn said, the legislation would close the victims’ compensation fund in 2016 instead of 2031 and would include workers’ compensation payments in determining benefits that victims would receive for injuries or ailments related to work at the World Trade Center site in New York. “Every American recognizes the heroism of the 9/11 first responders, but it is not compassionate to help one group while robbing future generations of opportunity,” Coburn, a medical doctor, said in a statement. The legislation now goes to the House, where Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, said his chamber would vote on it before adjourning for the year.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
A clear admission of the US government involvement and genuinely complicit about inviting the entire terrorist bin Laden organization into the USA. Illegals are all around us... and the USA lets them in to destroy the citizenry.
Liberals don't think about the future. If they did, we wouldn't be neck deep in socialist spending and debt.
Just because you would take orders to kill your own country men doesn't mean others would.
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Lets turn your argument around while for years you have lived in a single wide trailer purchased by your 85 year old mom out in Palm Springs. I know, I know ... you have contributed to the world sucking state aid towards you own ends drinking beer and have accumulated the largest haul in California history of an aluminum can foundry as you sit on that springy couch right outside the door of your single-wide that was never fixed. If it weren't for you, 0bama wouldn't be in office. He loves you.
Dr Ron Paul disagrees and voted Nay. doglicker IF the vote is any indication of involvement in 9/11 , you clearly share the views of democrats. -----------------------------------------------------------
If it weren't for you, 0bama wouldn't be in office. He loves you. You watch too much Back to the Future with the others at the Duke old age home for Storm Fronters in Dominica. Maybe if Ross Perot did'nt run then Obama would not be president.
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#2. To: Brian S (#0)
“Every American recognizes the heroism of the 9/11 first responders, but it is not compassionate to help one group while robbing future generations of opportunity,” Coburn, a medical doctor, said in a statement.
#3. To: buckeroo (#1)
A clear admission of the US government involvement and genuinely complicit about inviting the entire terrorist bin Laden organization into the USA.
Barrack Hussein Obama
President of the United States of America said that some Americans ; "They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
#4. To: WhiteSands (#3)
#5. To: buckeroo (#1)
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A clear admission of the US government involvement and genuinely complicit about inviting the entire terrorist bin Laden organization into the USA.
Barrack Hussein Obama
President of the United States of America said that some Americans ; "They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
#6. To: buckeroo (#4)
Lets turn your argument around while for years you have lived in a single wide trailer purchased by your 85 year old mom out in Palm Springs. I know, I know ... you have contributed to the world sucking state aid towards you own ends drinking beer and have accumulated the largest haul in California history of an aluminum can foundry as you sit on that springy couch right outside the door of your single-wide that was never fixed.
Barrack Hussein Obama
President of the United States of America said that some Americans ; "They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
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