US lawmakers move to help stricken 9/11 workers
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The US Senate voted Wednesday to create a 10-year, four-billion-dollar program to help September 11 emergency workers sickened in the ruins of the worst terrorist strike on US soil.
The House of Representatives was expected to follow suit quickly after a last-minute compromise ended a Republican blockade against the bill in one of the last acts of Democratic control of the US Congress. The measure, which senators backed by voice vote, offers health care and compensation to fire-fighters, police officers and other first responders who rushed to the scene of the World Trade Center attack in 2001. (AFP)
