[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 177 (Tuesday, December 8, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H9033]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         JAMES ZADROGA 9/11 HEALTH AND COMPENSATION ACT RENEWAL

  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, you have told us 
over and over again that the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation 
Act will be passed in this year.
  Well, the clock is running out. The time is here to live up to our 
pledge that ``we will never forget.'' We lost 3,000 innocent people on 
9/11, but thousands more lost their health care and are sick and dying. 
They are coming to this Congress praying for their health care.
  It is a national disgrace that we have not responded to our 
responders. Yet everyone agrees. Leaders on both sides of the aisle 
have pledged to do this before the end of the year. Yet, even when we 
all agree, we still seem to do nothing. As Jon Stewart so succinctly 
put it: Congress has become the last responders.
  It is time for the last responders to respond to the first responders 
and give them the health care and support they so justly deserve.

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