On the recordDecember 22, 2022
first, I want to thank my friend and colleague Senator Gillibrand for the great work she has done championing the 9/11 responder and survivor health fund. We know how many people sacrificed. We know how they ran to the towers when they were still smoldering, and then they contracted terrible diseases. For a while, this country left them high and dry. It would be like leaving our veterans high and dry. But, no, we stepped up to the plate with a very good and successful health funding program. Unfortunately, it runs out very soon. This amendment will extend it so it now can last another full 5 years. And the worry that firefighters, construction workers, police officers, and others who ran to the towers and are now beginning to contract diseases they never should have gotten--they will be taken care of. I hope we can get everybody to vote for this patriotic, important bill that remembers those who helped us in a great time of need. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Kentucky.
