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—SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND and SEN. CHARLES SCHUMER of New York announcing the Senate's passage of the James Zadroga Health & Compensation Act, which allocates $4.3 billion to providing medical treatment to emergency responders who were sickened by toxic dust at the World Trade Center site in the days following 9/11 [via Reuters]
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