The House is scheduled to vote on legislation to extend funding through 2090, weeks after the bill received nationwide attention following impassioned pleas for support from surviving first responders and comedian Jon Stewart.
The House is scheduled to vote Friday on legislation to extend funding for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund through 2090, weeks after the bill received nationwide attention following impassioned pleas for support from surviving first responders and comedian Jon Stewart.
The bill is expected to easily clear the House on Friday and will then be sent to the Senate, where timing on that vote is not yet clear, though Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed to hold a vote on the legislation. The current law, which was last renewed in 2015, expires next year and the fund's administrator says it doesn't have enough money to pay out all current and projected claims.
What this 9/11 responder whispered to Jon Stewart 01:55"Mitch McConnell made a commitment to the 9/11 community and my team leaders that he is going to help us get a piece of legislation that is going to be passed in the House in July, for an August vote in the Senate," Feal said at the time.
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