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Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., Friday introduced a House Resolution encouraging states to include lessons about 9/11 in their K-12 curriculum "so that the American people may never forget that fateful day."
With the anniversary of 9/11 looming, so is something else — a need for money for survivors of the attack on New York's World Trade Center.
On Capitol Hill, Republicans and Democrats are scrambling to address an impending $3 billion funding deficit for a federal health care program that pays for the ongoing medical care of 9/11 survivors and first responders.
A group of 50 House Democrats and Republicans is calling on President Biden to share with Congress text of a potential agreement with Iran to return to the 2015 nuclear deal before any papers are signed.
Vietnam veterans who served in the U.S. Army, Army National Guard, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps., and their families, will be honored Wednesday at noon on the 50th commemoration of the war, according to Massapequa U.S. Rep. Andrew Garbarino.
Central Islip’s downtown has taken another step toward revitalization with the securing of funding to pay for a new sewer line.
The U.S. House Veterans’ Affairs Committee recently approved three bipartisan bills offered by U.S. Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) that support America’s military veterans, advancing the measures to the U.S. House of Representatives for action.
U.S. Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) led 11 Republicans, including the entire New York GOP congressional delegation, in urging U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee leadership to mark up bipartisan legislation that would ensure sufficient funding for the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP).
The failure of President Biden’s ambitious Build Back Better funding bill last December also had another casualty — nearly $3 billion meant to plug a looming deficit in the World Trade Center Health Program.
Now lawmakers are searching for a new way to advance legislation to fill that hole after a recent briefing to lawmakers by 9/11 health program staff, the Daily News has learned.