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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJon Stewart shames Congress re: 9/11 First Responders Victim Compensation fund....must see!
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Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)because 9/11 happened on their watch. They failed. And they see no further ways to lie about it or exploit their own massive fail.
onenote
(42,714 posts)The room is used for the full committee, so there are seats for 40 members. But the subcommittee only has 14 members. At any given moment, some of the members who did show up probably were absent for a period. But most of the empty seats were empty because it wasn't a full committee hearing.
Even with that said, it's a powerful statement by Stewart.
This needs to be spread far and wide
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,009 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Stewart knocked it out of the park. They chose a great advocate, and you know he's doing it for $0.
Time to step up and fund the ... fund, damnit.
As a side note: Stewart/Franken 2020!!!
JudyM
(29,251 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)malaise
(269,049 posts)I'm as pissed as Jon Stewart
TheSocialDem
(191 posts)demmiblue
(36,864 posts)Indeed a must-see. Response time of first responders to September 11 = 5 seconds. They did their job. Eighteen YEARS later, do yours. (paraphrase, but not by much).
I'm calling my congress-critter (alas, a useless git named Duffy, but still calling).
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Thank God SOMEONE from Congress showed up. Shameful, shameful.
The last few years, funding issues in the House have been the Repubs fault. Now, it's up to the Democrats. They better fund health care for these people. I read that all that concrete and bldg material dust has caused horrible illnesses for the first responders, among other things.
If the govt can afford a $1.5 Trillion Dollar deficit to fund billionaire tax cuts, it can afford this.
Vinca
(50,278 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)I don't think he'd be interested, though. He has his causes and is a brilliant advocate for them already.