Allowing this fund to expire, or run out of the funding it needs, sets a dangerous precedent.

These are real people who are dying, and we have an obligation to them and to their families...

Soon we will have more dying after 9/11 than actually died on 9/11.

This program has been run exceptionally well. The fact that it is running out of funds is no reflection at all on the Administration of the program.

We owe it to all of them.

We have an obligation to get this done.

After 9/11, we vowed to never forget.

It was for those tens of thousands of brave selfless and innocent responders and survivors that Congress came together in 2010, after years of struggles and negotiations, to pass the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act and to fulfill our moral obligation, as Lincoln said, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan.

I really want to thank him. I don't think we would have been where we were back in 2015 or we would have been where we are now if it were not for Jon's efforts.

September 11 showed the true bravery of the American people.

This isn't a Democratic or Republican issue or a New York and New Jersey issue--here are Americans of all political persuasions in every corner of our country who are counting on us.