Jon Stewart shames Congress re: 9/11 First Responders Victim Compensation fund....must see!

[Tanuki]

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[Dennis Donovan]

1. Recommended! I'd love to see which members showed and who didn't.

[Achilleaze]

9. republicans whimped out, we can be sure

because 9/11 happened on their watch. They failed. And they see no further ways to lie about it or exploit their own massive fail.

[onenote]

15. It was a subcommittee hearing. Only two members didn't show

The room is used for the full committee, so there are seats for 40 members. But the subcommittee only has 14 members. At any given moment, some of the members who did show up probably were absent for a period. But most of the empty seats were empty because it wasn't a full committee hearing.

Even with that said, it's a powerful statement by Stewart.

[JDC]

2. F'in A

This needs to be spread far and wide

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. Wow. K & R.

[mr_lebowski]

4. Dang, something in mah eye ...

Stewart knocked it out of the park. They chose a great advocate, and you know he's doing it for $0.

Time to step up and fund the ... fund, damnit.

As a side note: Stewart/Franken 2020!!!

[JudyM]

5. Jon for Congress 2020.

[uponit7771]

6. Stop shaming Congress and.... start ... shaming Republicans !!!!!

[JHB]

18. +1

[malaise]

7. Please Rachel Maddow - show this in its entirety on your program

I'm as pissed as Jon Stewart

[TheSocialDem]

8. This is great. Nt

[demmiblue]

10. This was beyond moving (and beyond shameful).

Jon Stewart is a good, good man.

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[cp]

11. Superb

Indeed a must-see. Response time of first responders to September 11 = 5 seconds. They did their job. Eighteen YEARS later, do yours. (paraphrase, but not by much).
I'm calling my congress-critter (alas, a useless git named Duffy, but still calling).

[Honeycombe8]

12. I have tears in my eyes. That was so moving.

Thank God SOMEONE from Congress showed up. Shameful, shameful.

The last few years, funding issues in the House have been the Repubs fault. Now, it's up to the Democrats. They better fund health care for these people. I read that all that concrete and bldg material dust has caused horrible illnesses for the first responders, among other things.

If the govt can afford a $1.5 Trillion Dollar deficit to fund billionaire tax cuts, it can afford this.

[Vinca]

13. That was so powerful. Wonder if Stewart has ever considered politics.

[Rhiannon12866]

16. That crossed my mind, too.

I don't think he'd be interested, though. He has his causes and is a brilliant advocate for them already.

[demmiblue]

14. Yesterday Jim Jordan lambasted House Democrats and questioned their priorities. Today...

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[Rhiannon12866]

17. Excellent find!