House votes to permanently reauthorize 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund after outcry
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9/11 Victim Compensation Fund renewal bill finally has a price tag: $10.2 billion
9/11 Victim Compensation Fund renewal bill finally has a price tag: $10.2 billion
9/11 Fund Bill Renamed to Honor Late Heroes
9/11 Fund Bill Renamed to Honor Late Heroes
Sponsors of Bill to Fully Fund & Make Permanent 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Announce Name Change to Honor Heroes
Sponsors of Bill to Fully Fund & Make Permanent 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Announce Name Change to Honor Heroes
Her Husband Spent 9 Months Digging Through the Toxic Remains of the World Trade Center. She Won’t Let the World Forget
Her Husband Spent 9 Months Digging Through the Toxic Remains of the World Trade Center. She Won’t Let the World Forget
Det. Lou Alvarez and Firefighter Ray Pfeifer added to the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund bill name
By MICHAEL MCAULIFF NEW YORK DAILY NEWS JUL 08, 2019 | 12:46 PM James Zadroga, the NYPD detective who gave his name to the original 9/11 bill after dying from exposure to Ground Zero, is getting some partners. The names of late Det. Lou Alvarez and Firefighter Ray Pfeifer are being added to the new bill to restore […]
Deaths from 9/11-related illnesses will soon pass those lost on day of attacks: report
PIX11 News NEW YORK — Nearly 18 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, more than 2,000 people have died of an illness related to the attacks. That figure was provided to the Seattle Times last year by The 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund and World Trade Center Health Program. Officials at each organization told the news […]
9/11 health bill to be named after Luis Alvarez
By Nikki Schwab July 8, 2019 | 4:46pm Zadroga – an NYPD officer who also died of cancer – has had his name on the first two iterations of the law, passed in 2010 and again in 2015. “Ray and Lou will join Jimmy on the Mount Rushmore of those who were instrumental in ensuring we […]
Congressional Approval Expected for 9/11 National Memorial Trail
9 Jul 2019 The Valley News-Dispatch, Tarentum, Pa. | By Mary Ann Thomas The likely passage of U.S. Senate and House bills are expected to boost continued development of the 1,300-mile-long September 11th National Memorial Trail connecting all three plane crash memorial sites in Shanksville, Pa., New York City and Arlington, Va. The September 11th […]
‘We Are Seeing People Dropping Like Flies’: Meet the 9/11 First Responders Now Fighting for Their Own Lives
“I don’t think anyone went there with the thought, ‘Don’t go there. You will get sick,’ “