Sean Patrick Maloney: “the rescue workers were there for us when we needed them. The question before this body today is will we, the Federal…”

“the rescue workers were there for us when we needed them. The question before this body today is will we, the Federal Government, be there for them when they need us? I rise strongly in support of the gentleman from Wisconsin's (Mr. Obey) motion to recommit that provides the necessary funding to help protect this country, but I particularly want to speak about one program that was instituted and planned to help the first responders in New York City, and that is the $90 million proposed monitoring of health care at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. The 12 million that was originally allocated will run out in July, and only a small portion of the roughly 40,000 workers, and I mean laborer, fire, construction worker, those that were exposed to these deadly, deadly toxins, have been screened. Earlier, in a bipartisan way, we passed a supplemental, but that was vetoed, and these heroes need to be helped, and what I see is sort of the selective amnesia.”