9/11 Health Bill Backers Unveil Police Exhibit
WASHINGTON (AP/WCBS 880) -- Backers of a bill to aid workers who became sick after working in the World Trade Center's ruins are hoping a display of police badges will help build support.
The badges of 29 New York City Police Department members who assisted in rescue efforts and who supporters say later died from 9/11-related illnesses are being exhibited in Washington on Monday.
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Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly is joining New York's Democratic U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and other lawmakers in unveiling the exhibit on Capitol Hill.
Supporters are making a bipartisan push for the bill, which has already passed the House, during the lame duck session of Congress.
It would provide free health care and compensation to those workers.
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