[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 22262]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           A TIME FOR HEALING

  (Mr. PASCRELL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PASCRELL. Mr. Speaker, the election is over. We need to come 
together. There needs to be a healing process for all of us in both 
parties; and I can think of no better subject, and there was an article 
in 2004, in the summer, in New York magazine. The title of that article 
was ``Fallout 3 years after the World Trade Center attacks. Thousands 
of cops, firefighters, people who work and lived near the 9/11 disaster 
have fallen sick and fallen ill.''
  The EPA just a short time after that disaster said all was clear. The 
air was fit to breathe. The water was sufficient to drink. It 
contained, in that disaster, glass shards, pulverized concrete, many 
carcinogens, including hundreds of thousands of pounds of asbestos. It 
contained benzene.
  There are many people who have been hurt. If you expose a person to 
this amount of lead, cadmium, benzene, asbestos, they are going to get 
sick.
  We fill potholes in Baghdad. We have forgotten our own first 
responders.

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