Money for 9/11 Health Care Was Dropped From Year-End Spending Bill
Briefly

"Firefighters, he said, had thought they were finally closing a chapter in the yearslong battle to end periodic shortfalls and secure long-term funding for emergency workers and others who have grown deathly ill from the toxins of ground zero."
"Obviously we are not against smarter spending and we're not against cutting wasteful spending, Mr. Brosi said. What we are against is universal killing of a bill without looking deeper into individual parts of it that have merit and are not wasteful spending."
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