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    Report: FDNY Lacked Proper Breathing Equipment On 9/11

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    There is reportedly new proof that shows the city didn't do everything possible to protect firefighters who becamse sick after September 11th.

    The Daily News says a lawyer representing more than 600 firefighters claims concealed city documents show all firefighters should have been equipped with respirators before the attacks.

    The paper says the New York City Fire Deparmtment broke its guidelines by having only 600 respirators for more than 11,000 firefighters at the time.

    According to the memos, the equipment was only handed out last summer.

    The city's lawyers deny the memos were hidden, and calls the issue irrelevant, because the city instituted a separate respirator policy after the attacks.
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    "I was at ground zero for 5 days before I was horribly injured. I never once wore a mask or a respirator, nor did anyone tell me to. These lawyers are worse then those who attacked us on 9/11/01." - John Feal - 2/28/2010
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    From John Feal: "Our mark up date has been given to us. After months/years of rallying, press-conference's, trips to D.C., meetings, begging, crying, funerals, interviews,etc... We are one step closer to history. March 16th, HR847 gets marked up in the Sumcommittee and voted on by the 38 members. Thank you everyone who stood and fought with me."
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    Zadroga Bill for 9/11 Health Care Passes Subcommittee Vote, Responders Wait

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    March 16, 2010 6:19pm Updated March 17, 2010 7:14am

    By Josh Williams and Jon Schuppe

    DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

    INWOOD — Keith Lebow stood outside the Church of the Good Shepherd in Inwood on Tuesday, looking at the steel cross that honors the people from his neighborhood who died on 9/11.

    This is where he wants to be remembered, too.

    “When I die from my illness, this is where my stone is going, right there,” Lebow, 46, said.

    A former ironworker who spent 100 hours clearing debris and searching for victims at Ground Zero, Lebow can’t afford the medical care he needs to deal with the myriad of respiratory and skin illnesses he’s contracted.

    He’s one of the 10,000 people who sued the city for compensation, but says his portion of a proposed $657.5 million settlement — starting at $3,250 each — would not be enough to keep him alive.

    He needs the Zadroga bill.

    The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, named after a New York detective who died after inhaling toxic World Trade Center dust, would provide medical monitoring and treatment to WTC responders and community members for the rest of their lives.

    The $11 billion bill was approved by a Congressional subcommittee on Tuesday, and is headed for a vote by the entire House of Representatives.

    Lebow suffers from lymphoma, asthma, gastritis, cellulitis, sinusitis, post-traumatic stress disorder and several other ailments. He was hospitalized Sunday after he started spitting up blood. His left calf has turned black, and says that if he injures it further, it could develop gangrene. And he his caring for his 90-year-old mother.

    “If the Zadroga bill doesn’t’ get passed, it’s pretty much a death sentence for me,” Lebow said. “Even if we win the lawsuit, I am not going to be able to afford my medications.”

    John Feal, an injured construction worker and founder of the Fealgood Foundation, a nonprofit group that helps people hurt at Ground Zero, said there are more than 55,000 people suffering from the effects of 9/11. He is among those who did not join the lawsuit against the city.

    The proposed payouts were a joke, he said.

    “They might as well give out 9/11 instant scratch off lottery tickets,” he said. “The $3,250...doesn’t even cover some first responders’ medication costs,” Feal said.

    The proposed settlement with the city still needs to be approved by the plaintiffs.

    Mayor Michael Bloomberg has called the settlement “a fair and reasonable resolution to a complex set of circumstances.”

    Bloomberg also applauded the House’s progress on the Zagroga bill. He said it “marks an important step in our effort to secure sustained medical monitoring and treatment for the first responders and survivors of the September 11 attacks.”
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    9/11 Health Bill Passes Key House Panel

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    By HASANI GITTENS
    Updated 9:22 PM EDT, Tue, May 25, 2010

    A key panel in the House of Representatives voted Tuesday night to pass the September 11th Health and Compensation Act.

    The Energy and Commerce Committee took up the bill, which would provide health care and compensation for first responders with an illness that can be linked to the 9/11 attacks.

    Mayor Bloomberg praised the panel's action.

    “Today’s approval of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act by the House Energy and Commerce Committee is an important step towards ensuring that the appropriate resources are available to take care of those who need it most," said Bloomberg. "The attacks of September 11th were an attack on this nation, and it’s only fitting that we as a nation take care of those who survived the attacks, and those who risked their lives to save others. "

    The bill would take steps to give those eligible for medical treatment the opportunity to do so without sharing the cost, re-open the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund for those who didn't file or become ill after the original deadline and would also establish an emergency council responsible for coordinating the care and compensation of victims.

    The legislation is named after James Zadroga, an NYPD detective and first responder who spent more than 400 hours working at the World Trade Center Site. He fell ill, and his death in 2006 was linked to his work there.

    In the weeks following the Sept. 11 attacks, the EPA told people working and living near the 9/11 site that the air was safe to breathe.

    The city and federal government were slow to acknowledge the link between toxins at the Ground Zero site and illnesses suffered by first responders.

    “The Zadroga Act just cleared its toughest hurdle so far, to the relief of thousands of Americans who lost their health because of 9/11 and desperately need help,” said New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney.
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    House committee approves 9/11 health plan bill

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    Associated Press - May 26, 2010 6:55 AM ET

    NEW YORK (AP) - A House committee has approved legislation for a long-stalled health plan for first responders to the World Trade Center terrorist attacks.

    Mayor Michael Bloomberg hailed the approval "as an important step toward ensuring that the appropriate resources are available to take care of those who need it most."

    The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act was backed by New York City lawmakers. It was approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee Tuesday night.

    The legislation is named for a NYPD detective who died after inhaling toxic dust at the trade center site.

    It would provide health care and financial compensation for those who developed ailments after responding to the site or working on the cleanup.
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    Plenty of anger over GOP opposition as 9/11 health bill nears reality

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    BY Michael Mcauliff
    DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
    Wednesday, May 26th 2010, 4:00 AM

    WASHINGTON - Congress took another slow, painful step toward passing a bill to treat people ailing from the 9/11 attacks, but not without angering the very responders it aims to help.

    The measure passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee, 33 to 12.

    The outrage stemmed from bill opponents and amendments offered by Republicans, who suggested the country couldn't afford the health care and compensation bill, estimated to cost close to $11 billion.

    "By making this a new mandatory program, you jeopardize the financial health of the United States of America," said Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) at the committee meeting.

    "Are you going to raise somebody's taxes when they're barely able to make their house payment?" Rogers said.

    "I can't believe for one minute that you're willing to jeopardize the financial health of every single American," he said, speaking directly to responders, who were outraged.

    "To tell us that people won't be able to pay their mortgages and their bills because of us - that hurt," said Kenny Specht, 41, a retired firefighter who survived thyroid cancer.

    "I am offended on so many levels," said Jill Fenwick, a Staten Islander who worked in Tribeca - and kept working until lung ailments made it impossible.

    Republicans also tried unsuccessfully to add amendments to bar illegal immigrants from the treatment program, to ban abortions among the ailing rescue workers and to end the treatment program when national health reform takes effect.

    And in a move that passed - but sparked stunned laughter among the responders - Florida GOP Rep. Cliff Stearns offered an amendment to prevent terrorists from getting 9/11 treatment - suggesting there might be terrorists among the responders.

    "Isn't it laughable? We're not the terrorists - the terrorists attacked us," said Kimberly Flynn of Manhattan, who chuckled in disbelief.

    The bill would spend $4.59 billion over 10 years for treatment, rather than the unlimited program responders had hoped for. The time period was shortened at the request of Republicans. The city would have to pay 10%.

    A measure to also spend $6 billion to compensate victims has already passed.
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    Senate Cues Up 9/11 Health Hearing

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    By Michael McAuliff

    With a Sept. 11 health bill nearly set to go to the House floor for a vote, the Senate is finally taking its first step to consider providing care to the first responders of 9/11.

    Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who offered the Senate bill last year, says Health Committee Chairman Tom Harkin will bring the issue up for discussion for the first time in the upper chamber.

    “At my urging, Chairman Harkin has agreed to hold a hearing on the 9/11 health bill,” Gillibrand said, noting how much farther along the House was on the measure after its Health Committee voted Yea last night.

    “My colleagues in the House have made tremendous progress on this critical legislation, now we need action in the Senate,” Gillibrand said. “We have an undeniable moral obligation to help the heroes of 9/11 and all others exposed, and failure to do so may have long-lasting implications on future response efforts.”

    No date was set, however, and the Senate Judiciary Committee also must crank up if there is any chance at a comprehensive 9/11 bill passing Congress before the ninth anniversary of the attacks.

    And given Republican antipathy to the effort to create a mandatory program for ill responders, the legislation would probably be better off moving this year, than waiting for the next Congress to be seated.
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    Bill to help sick 9/11 responders advances

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    (AP) – 1 day ago

    WASHINGTON — A House panel has approved a $5.1 billion program to provide health care for more of the 9/11 first responders and others sickened by toxins emanating from the ruins of the World Trade Center.

    The Energy and Commerce Committee voted 33-12 for the bill Tuesday.

    New York City would contribute 10 percent of the cost of the program, which would run for 10 years. It would expand current city 9/11 health programs to cover an additional 25,000 responders and 25,000 survivors.

    The legislation, which now moves to the full House, is named for James Zadroga, a New York City Police Department detective who died at age 34 in 2006 from respiratory disease contracted during rescue operations at ground zero.

    The measure, sponsored by New York Democrat Carolyn Maloney, also reopens the federal victim compensation fund that closed at the end of 2003.
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    House GOP Members Question 9/11 Health Bill

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    By Jen Chung in News on May 26, 2010 4:02 PM

    Yesterday's Ground Zero news wasn't only about mosques—the nearly $11 billion James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act was approved by the House of Representatives' House Energy and Commerce Committee, 33 to 12. But there was a fair amount of opposition from Republican members, like Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Michigan) who said, "By making this a new mandatory program, you jeopardize the financial health of the United States of America."

    The Daily News reports that Rogers also said, "Are you going to raise somebody's taxes when they're barely able to make their house payment? I can't believe for one minute that you're willing to jeopardize the financial health of every single American." Which upset first responders: Retired firefighter, who suffered from thyroid cancer, said, "To tell us that people won't be able to pay their mortgages and their bills because of us - that hurt." And then Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Florida) wanted to add an amendment to prohibit terrorists from taking advantage of the health care, leading one first victim to say, "Isn't it laughable? We're not the terrorists - the terrorists attacked us."

    The legislation will be voted on next Tuesday by the House Health Subcommittee. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan) said, “Tuesday’s vote will be a giant step toward the finish line for the Zadroga Act, and we are hopeful it will pass with strong bipartisan support. It’s been nine long years since the attacks. Congress must finally step up to the plate and provide long-term health care and compensation for the heroes and survivors of 9/11. We have a moral responsibility to provide care for those who lost their health because of the attacks on America --it’s simply the least this great nation can do."
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