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Jon Stewart To Walk Halls Of Congress With 9/11 Responders

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WASHINGTON -- Jon Stewart spent years upbraiding Congress from his perch on the set of "The Daily Show," perhaps never to so great an effect as when he embarrassed lawmakers over their failure to help the ailing first responders of 9/11.Stewart left the show in August, but the cause of the rescuers who rushed into that nightmarish catastrophe 14 years ago -- at great personal risk and ongoing cost -- is still very much on the former show host's mind now that the 9/11 law that Congress did eventually pass is starting to expire.
According to sources familiar with the planning, Stewart will be taking a different, more direct tack to help the heroes of 9/11 now that he's out from behind his studio desk. He plans to put his feet to work along with his mouth, and walk the halls of Congress next Wednesday with about 100 responders while they make personal appeals to members. Their goal is to help renew the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which starts phasing out next month.
Stewart first broached the idea with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.), the 9/11 bill's lead sponsor in the Senate. Several responders were in the audience when the senator appeared on one of Stewart's final shows in July, said Glen Caplin, a former Gillibrand aide who is coordinating the Capitol Hill push for his new employer, the Global Strategy Group.
The last 9/11 bill, named after an NYPD detective who died after exposure to the toxic site, passed in 2010, more than nine years after the attacks, when Congress was finally cajoled into addressing the mounting problems suffered by Americans who rushed from all over the nation to help in the aftermath.
But funding for the $1.6 billion health and monitoring effort ends in October. It has enough cash on hand to keep operating for up to another year, but the resulting uncertainty could cause problems for patients and push doctors to seek more permanent work. More than 72,000 responders and survivors from every Congressional district are enrolled in health programs funded by the bill.


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Jon Stewart continues to be a great person. Its sad that this has to happen though. It should be a no brainer to give 9/11 first responders the assistance they need.
 
Bush and Cheney should fry for what they did.

I think we should waterboard them, seems they know something significant about 9/11.
 
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Jon Stewart continues to be a great person. Its sad that this has to happen though. It should be a no brainer to give 9/11 first responders the assistance they need. [/FONT][/COLOR]

The reason this has become such a political hot potato is because if it is examined too closely, if the government acknowledges the rare cancers those first responders developed, it would not be long before it would become painfully apparent that something happened there that day that was much closer to Chernobyl than to burning office fires. They have to keep the lid on the truth.
 
The reason this has become such a political hot potato is because if it is examined too closely, if the government acknowledges the rare cancers those first responders developed, it would not be long before it would become painfully apparent that something happened there that day that was much closer to Chernobyl than to burning office fires. They have to keep the lid on the truth.

Don't bring that CT garbage here.
 
Bush and Cheney should fry for what they did.

I think we should waterboard them, seems they know something significant about 9/11.

They got Hillary's vote did the not.
 
Because Bozo The Clown is retired.
 
First Responders' Syndrome is documented in the medical evidence, there is no element of CT about it.

The simple truth is too painful to consider for many.
 
I'm still scoffing at saying
Jon Stewart spent years upbraiding Congress from his perch on the set of "The Daily Show,"

Then I realized this is huffpo so...
 
I'm still scoffing at saying

Then I realized this is huffpo so...

I'm curious as to whether or not you were a regular viewer of The Daily Show?

I was, and it seems to me Stewart DID spend much of his time upbraiding Congress. That's a pretty accurate description, IMO.
 
Stewart should not go to Congress for charity.

Individual congressmen can donate what they like from their own salary or property, of course.
 
I'm curious as to whether or not you were a regular viewer of The Daily Show?

I was, and it seems to me Stewart DID spend much of his time upbraiding Congress. That's a pretty accurate description, IMO.

Only half of Congress...
 
Only half of Congress...

Probably less than half really, but your point is good.

Thanks for the non-answer. I guess that means I made my point too, eh? ;)
 
Probably less than half really, but your point is good.

Thanks for the non-answer. I guess that means I made my point too, eh? ;)

If you didn't, I'm sure you'll find a way that you did, and if your point didn't actually get made, we'll get a website about how DP uses thermite charges to dilute the value of your posts and the Government is in on keeping the truth from the masses. So whatever makes you happy there HD.
 
So he's gone from comedian and part time political activist to full time political activist? He should be a good activist. He has the personality for it.
 
If you didn't, I'm sure you'll find a way that you did, and if your point didn't actually get made, we'll get a website about how DP uses thermite charges to dilute the value of your posts and the Government is in on keeping the truth from the masses. So whatever makes you happy there HD.

When another poster refuses to answer a fairly simple question (were you a frequent viewer of The Daily Show?), that refusal fairly well answers the question. :mrgreen:

Thermite charges? Honey you are way behind in the knowledge department. ;)
 
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