WASHINGTON – The Democrats’ election slaughter in the House will doom the 9/11 health bill if the Senate can’t pass it in the last few weeks of a lame-duck session, legislators told the Daily News. “Right now, it’s now or never for the 9/11 bill,” said Rep. Pete King (R-L.I.), who soon will head the House Homeland Security Committee. “If we’re not able to pass the 9/11 bill in the lame duck, I think the reasonable conclusion is it’s dead,” added Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Queens). The reason is simple: Just 17 Republicans voted for the $7.4 billion James Zadroga Health and Compensation Act when it passed in the House. With the GOP majority in the next session of Congress that starts in January, the measure would have to be redone from scratch – and it took years for Democrats to write it in the first place. Few Republicans supported it along the way, calling the measure a new “entitlement” program and suggesting it was a special benefit for New York. That leaves thousands of ailing 9/11 responders pinning their hopes on the unlikely chances of the bill getting through the Senate before Christmas. Senate leaders are still hashing out the… Read full this story
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