Michael Scotto
NY1 News
June 25, 2009
Mayor Bloomberg joined Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand in Washington D.C. Wednesday to introduce the September 11th Health Act, the first comprehensive 9/11 health bill to ever be introduced in the U.S. Senate. NY1’s Michael Scotto filed the following report.
[efoods]Mayor Michael Bloomberg took a detour from the campaign trail Wednesday and went to the nation’s capital to talk health.
In the morning, he helped Senator Kirsten Gillibrand introduce legislation to the Senate that aims to provide treatment for people who got sick after the World Trade Center attack. The bill would reopen the 9/11 victim compensation fund and provide federal money for health care programs to monitor and treat those who developed illnesses while living near or working on the toxic pile.
“Passing this bill will at long last fully engage the federal government in resolving the health challenges created by the terrorist attack against our entire nation,” said Bloomberg.
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