Congressional budget negotiators have decided to take back $125 million in Sept. 11 aid from New York, which had fought to keep the money to treat sick and injured ground zero workers, lawmakers said Tuesday.
New York officials had sought for months to hold onto the funding, originally meant to cover increased worker compensation costs stemming from the 2001 terror attacks.
But a massive labor and health spending bill moving fitfully through House-Senate negotiations would take back that funding, lawmakers said.
The Senate voted last month to let New York keep the $125 million, but the House made no such move. House and Senate budget negotiators then decided to take the money back, lawmakers and aides said.
Top New York fire officials recently lobbied Congress to keep the funding. Fire and police officials say they worry that many people will develop long-term lung and mental health problems from their time working on
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Vote Fraud in Wisconsin (Kerry won by only 11,000 votes)
New York Post: WHOSE VOTE FRAUD?
Similar issues are at play in Wisconsin, a state John Kerry “won” by about 11,000 votes. Many Republicans believe that the Bush campaign really won Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes. Questionable — in some cases criminal — behavior has been documented:
* In Milwaukee, five Democratic campaign staffers, including Sowande Omokunde, the son of Rep. Gwen Moore, and Michael Pratt, the son of former acting mayor Marvin Pratt, will stand trial on felony charges of criminal damage to property, for slashing the tires of GOP get-out-the-vote vans.
* The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel found a discrepancy of 7,000 more ballots cast than there were records of people having actually voted. Curiously, the city has refused to let the paper examine questionable same-day voter-registration cards.
* Multiple state and federal official inquiries — including the FBI’s — have been opened to examine Milwaukee’s situation as well as other electoral oddities across the state.
Lets look into vote fraud and ask Captain Vote Fraud aka Governor Doyle why a voter ID bill hasn't been signed yet?????
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