Sean Patrick Maloney: “I rise with strong support for the True American Heroes Act. This legislation honors the over 300 men and women…”

“I rise with strong support for the True American Heroes Act. This legislation honors the over 300 men and women, firefighters, EMTs and rescue workers, dozens of police officers from both the city and Port Authority, and other Federal, State and local emergency workers who charged into the World Trade Center Towers on September 11, and perished as they attempted to save the lives of workers in the building. From the moment the planes struck the towers from all over the city and surrounding area, rescuers poured out of fire houses and precinct houses and ran into the burning towers without regard for their own personal safety. This legislation lets us honor those who died so others could live. At Ground Zero on September 12, I heard estimates from people in authority from the State and city, and they estimated that as many as 20,000 people had been killed in the World Trade Center. We know now that thanks to the heroic work of the rescue workers the death toll was closer to 3,000.”