Bill Pascrell: “the election is over. We need to come together. There needs to be a healing process for all of us in both parties; and I…”

“the election is over. We need to come together. There needs to be a healing process for all of us in both parties; and I can think of no better subject, and there was an article in 2004, in the summer, in New York magazine. The title of that article was ``Fallout 3 years after the World Trade Center attacks. Thousands of cops, firefighters, people who work and lived near the 9/11 disaster have fallen sick and fallen ill.'' The EPA just a short time after that disaster said all was clear. The air was fit to breathe. The water was sufficient to drink. It contained, in that disaster, glass shards, pulverized concrete, many carcinogens, including hundreds of thousands of pounds of asbestos. It contained benzene. There are many people who have been hurt. If you expose a person to this amount of lead, cadmium, benzene, asbestos, they are going to get sick. We fill potholes in Baghdad. We have forgotten our own first responders.”