Bill Pascrell: “Many folks from New Jersey, both first responders and workers, went to New York after this tragedy. There is no question…”

“Many folks from New Jersey, both first responders and workers, went to New York after this tragedy. There is no question that, when you look at the records, that there were people from all 50 States in Lower Manhattan on 9/11 and after 9/11. There are 435 congressional districts, and 430 of them were represented by the names of constituents on the World Trade Center Health Registry. But you don't need that. You need to look at the two reports from Mount Sinai Hospital, a great hospital in New York City, to see the number of people that went to that hospital who worked on that pile even after they were given the all-clear signal by the government, not self-imposed. What in God's name are we doing to ourselves and arguing amongst ourselves when we know that this is the right thing to do? Get out of the bureaucracy nightmare. Let's do something together for a change. The only thing we have to show for it is bickering over the last 2 years, and what did that bring us? These folks deserve our help, and they deserve it now. Mr. Speaker, I am so proud to standing here to support our heroes from 9/11. Today--more than four and a half years after the death of NYPD Det. James Zadroga--I am here to say that we need to pass the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act right away because we are losing these brave souls as we speak.”