White House, N.Y. Face Off Over 9/11 Funds

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050601/ap_on_re_us/sept_11_workers_comp_3

By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer
Wed Jun 1, 5:52 PM ET

WASHINGTON - New York has yet to spend $125 million for workers injured in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and their aftermath. Tired of waiting, the federal government wants the money back.

New York lawmakers are trying to hold on to the funds ahead of a House committee meeting next week to consider reclaiming the money as the Bush administration has proposed for the budget year that begins Oct. 1.

Twenty-one lawmakers from the state, including Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer, want the White House to redirect the money toward health programs for ground zero workers affected with long-term lung problems that might not appear for years.

So far, the administration has resisted

[Double T]

1. Now the asshole, on top of everything else bad and evil, is an...

SOB Indian Giver.

[spanone]

3. Hey, the world stopped watching. All that money was a photo-op.

Just like his AIDS program. All Bullshit.

[Double T]

4. Bush signs the legislation with fanfare but before the ink is dry ...

on the document the legislation is never funded and goes into the abyss.

[HockeyMom]

2. Not to mention

the people who worked and lived near ground zero. It won't be just the ground zero workers.

Having gotten that stench 3 days later and 50 miles away, I can tell you it was bad. I don't know how those people working and living there could breathe that air day after day after day.