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Patrick Leahy: “We cannot turn our backs on these injured and ailing first responders. This is a defining issue of our American…”

On the recordDecember 22, 2010
We cannot turn our backs on these injured and ailing first responders. This is a defining issue of our American values--how we serve those who have sacrificed for our Nation.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont
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govinfo.gov
Dec 22, 2010

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Leahy addresses the importance of supporting first responders from the 9/11 attacks.

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