republican leaders, former new york city mayor rudy giuliani and governor mike huckabee all supporters of this. joining us now a leading champion of the bill, new york senator kirsten jill he brand. senator jill brand, i think everybody wants to take care of the people who helped take care of new york city in the aftermath of that awful event. but the bill, the tab for this, $7 billion. why so much money? >> well, this is a fund that will pay for the health care for all of these fist responders, these heros and all the victims of the families who were there at ground zero who some of the children are really suffering from very difficult lung disorders and conditions. so this is a fund that's going to pay for their health care over the next ten years. and can the bottom line is this is a question of right versus wrong. these are the men and women who literally climbed up the towers when everyone was running down, the men and women there looking for survivors in the fist days and remains thereafter. they remained there day in and