all with no hoops to jump through, daniel, vandi, and sarah decided to use their bank americard cash rewards credit card to sweeten the holiday season. that s the spirit of rewarding connections. apply online or at a bank of america near you. last week the former host of the daily show, jon stewart, joined 9/11 first responders as they went door to door in congress trying to drum up support for legislation that helps the first responders who got sick after helping in the rescue and cleanup effort after 9/11. they visited lots of lawmakers offices who have not yet backed that bill. mr. stewart said that instead of
this done. i feel like we re so super close, and i do think that ryan and mcconnell will inevitably get this done. the problem is i do then get reports that there are staffers on one of the committees that they re rewording things in a new bill that tries to take money out of the bill. then there s another staffer that rewords they re putting another bill out that tries to get this remove the name of the hero police officer who died of world trade center center-related illnesses take zadroga tames the nake the name of o james za-growinga off the bill do you understand why they took it off the highway bill? supposedly on the fwlafrmths tuesday which was then voted on and signed into law by the president. and they took it out. they took it off.
passed in 2010 thanks in large part to jon stewart s shaming members of congress into supporting it. but much of that law expired in october. and the rest is going to expire next year unless congress acts. so far congress has not acted. it was widely expected that the 9/11 bill would be included in this month s transportation bill. but senator mitch mcconnell stripped it out of that legislation. now there are rumblings that it could be included in a comprehensive spending bill that s expected to come up next week. this is a bill that if they pass it it would permanently extend these health benefits for fis responders so they stop having to go to capitol hill begging every few years. well, tonight we reached out to speaker paul ryan s office for confirmation as to whether or not this thing is ever going to get a freaking vote. a member of his office responded with this. speaker ryan has committed to reauthorize the program, and he will keep his word. we expect it will be included in on
tonight for an event at which he asked for and ultimately received the endorsement of the new england police benevolent association. this was just supposed to be a meeting of donald trump and that police group. this is not supposed to be a public event. but there is so much energy around his candidacy right now that the public, those who love donald trump and those who really don t, decided that if he was going to be there they were going to turn out anyway. we have a problem. there are beliefs coming into this country that do not coincide with our constitutional rights, our amendments, our bill of rights. and if they cannot if their beliefs are complete opposite of what we believe in and how we function in this country, then it does not belong in this quour country. how do you think that would work? at the border, you know i want the wall up. i want the wall up on the southern border. i want the walls up on the