Waves

Senate Republicans on Thursday morning filibustered legislation to monitor and treat first responders and emergency workers who suffered illnesses related to 9/11.

A vote to quash the filibuster failed by a vote of 57 to 42, three votes short of the necessary threshold. As a result, the proposal is unlikely to pass this year.

The bill would provide funding for a health program to treat first responders, construction and cleanup workers and residents who inhaled toxic particles after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch...fails-key-vote

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Mafoo

but we should definitely keep cutting taxes for the wealthiest, right

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Waves

and lets not forget the inheritance tax, so rich spoiled children can get their mommy and daddys money and not have to pay too much to the govt!

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Kompressor

Meh, it's more along the lines of not passing any helpful legislation while Obama is in office so he keeps looking bad.

Still pretty fucked up though.

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Waves

thats pretty much what all politics comes down to. making someone else look worse than u are.

it is fucked up lol

leads to lesser of two evils situation, which we have going on in america on a nation-wide scale

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The Rev

Well, my first question is, what kind of riders were attached to the bill? I mean, maybe the main thing is helping 9/11 first responders, but there could be any number of other, totally unrelated things, included in the bill as well. This is often the case with bills being introduced in congress: shit's tacked on in order to win the votes of different congressmen.

Hate to play devils advocate here, but I also hate to just jump on the GOP=Evil bandwagon without first looking at the situation. (Of course, I am more than happy to jump on the Banks=Evil bandwagon with no questions asked, just so you know.)



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AfroHorse

i can imagine beck/palin etc calling the democrats freedom hating terrorists if they made the same move

then again daily show is my only source here

Waves

you put too much faith in the republican party

from article:


The bill would provide funding for a health program to treat first responders, construction and cleanup workers and residents who inhaled toxic particles after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.

The $7.4 billion cost of the legislation over 10 years is paid for by a provision that would prevent foreign multinational corporations from using tax havens to avoid taxes on U.S. income.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) blasted Republicans after the vote.

“Republicans denied adequate health care to the heroes who developed illnesses from rushing into burning buildings on 9/11. Yet they will stop at nothing to give tax breaks to millionaires and CEOs, even though they will explode our deficit and fail to create jobs. That tells you everything you need to know about their priorities,” Reid said in a statement.

The International Association of Firefighters, the National Association of Police Organizations, the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association and the AFL-CIO union, among other organizations, support the legislation.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), one of the bill’s co-sponsors, made an impassioned plea before the vote to bring it up for consideration.

“This vote is about being an American, because from the days at Bunker Hill, when the patriots put down their plows and took up muskets to defend and create our freedom, we always try to take care of them,” Schumer said. “The heroes of 9/11 are no different.”

Schumer said some of the police officers and firefighters who rushed to the flaming towers have already been diagnosed with cancers.

“Others know it is an almost certainty that they will come down with similar diseases and illnesses that are extremely costly to fight,” he said.

Last week, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) released a letter signed by every Senate Republican pledging to block all legislative action until Congress acts on the expiring Bush tax cuts and passes a measure to fund the federal government into 2011.

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kamikazi89

6 more weeks and none of this will matter, thank god..come groundhog day it won't even be a memory

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