NEW YORK

Ground Zero first responders and the lawmakers who backed their efforts gathered this afternoon across the street from the site of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to celebrate the passage on Wednesday of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which will establish permanent healthcare and compensation to the approximately 20,000 people who got sick from the toxic air at the site in the weeks following the destruction of the World Trade Center.

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Sponsors and supporters of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act were in Washington, D.C. today to urge the U.S. Senate to get past partisanship and pass the measure that will bring permanent healthcare and compensation to the approximately 20,000 Americans who are suffering from illnesses contracted while working at Ground Zero in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.

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