7Online.com/AP: Clinton seeks help for ground zero workers

[PhilipShore]

7Online.com/AP
Clinton seeks help for ground zero workers
January 31, 2006

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=3864218

(New York-AP, January 31, 2006) - Sen. Hillary Clinton said Tuesday she will bring the debate over Sept. 11 ground zero worker health to the floor of the U.S. Senate in coming days, seeking help for first responders through a troubled asbestos litigation bill.

Clinton, D-N.Y., said she will try to add an amendment to a much-debated asbestos measure that would make Sept. 11, 2001, first responders, workers and nearby residents eligible to apply for aid under a newly created Federal Asbestos Compensation Fund.

As much as 2,000 tons of asbestos may have been tossed into the air in lower Manhattan when the 110-story World Trade Center towers collapsed, according to some estimates.

Ground zero health advocates have long argued that the full scope of illnesses from toxic debris and dust will take years to fully develop, even though doctors caution it will be very difficult to prove the hazards caused specific deaths.

[jsamuel]

1. good issue Senator

esp. since you are a Senator from NY

[goforit]

2. Hmmmm.......White lungs haunt the White house!!!

[Historic NY]

3. Unfortunately there are at least 4 deaths already......

connected to exposures suffered at Ground Zero.

http://www.thechief-leader.com/news/2006/0120/News/004.html

http://www.voicesofsept11.org/artman/publish/Ground_Zero/article_002397.php

[babydollhead]

4. could it be what Bill's health problems stem from?

[fujiyama]

5. This is an important issue

and goes to the heart of this evil administration. Its withholding of the data regarding the toxins at ground zero was unforgivable. The EPA swept aside all problems, which were well known.