Senate Proceeding on Dec 9th, 2010 :: 0:51:20 to 0:54:35
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0:51:16 to 0:51:20( Edit History Discussion )

Carl Levin: it under no compunction, we remember them when they get hurt in that brave endeavor.

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Speech By: Charles Schumer

0:51:21 to 0:51:41( Edit History Discussion )

Charles Schumer: we do it for our veterans. we should be doing it for our 9/11 heroes. the first responders, the police, the firefighters, the e.m.t. workers, the construction workers and the ordinary citizens who rushed to danger at a time when no one knew how many people might be living and entrapped in those collapsed towers.

0:51:42 to 0:52:04( Edit History Discussion )

Charles Schumer: and i would plead with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, this should not be a moment of politics. one can come up with reason after reason after reason why not to vote for this bill, and we've heard many, and the reasons keep changing, but one fact doesn't change.

0:52:05 to 0:52:28( Edit History Discussion )

Charles Schumer: there are those who need help, who deserve our help, from new york and new jersey and connecticut and from every other state of the union, and to them, a parliamentary decision that we can't vote on this because there's another bill we want to vote on first, because we would

0:52:29 to 0:52:51( Edit History Discussion )

Charles Schumer: change this or that are going to ring very, very hollow. this should not be a partisan issue, madam president. this should be an issue where america unites. when it comes to helping our veterans, we are united. that is not a democratic or republican issue. that is not a northeast-southwest issue.

0:52:52 to 0:53:13( Edit History Discussion )

Charles Schumer: it is an issue of being an american. this vote is about being an american, because from the days at bunker hill, when the patriots put down their plows and took up muskets to defend and create our freedom, we always tried to take care of them. we have done it better and

0:53:14 to 0:53:35( Edit History Discussion )

Charles Schumer: better for our veterans, and the heroes of 9/11 are no different. so i beg, i plead, i implore two great colleagues from the other side to join us, put aside the political considerations, remember what these people did for us.

0:53:36 to 0:53:56( Edit History Discussion )

Charles Schumer: you've seen them when they visited your offices, the suffering, all for an act of voluntary heroism. they're not asking for welfare. they are not asking for huge handouts. they are simply asking that they be able to meet the high health

0:53:57 to 0:54:18( Edit History Discussion )

Charles Schumer: care costs that occur when you develop cancers and other illnesses because particles of glass and cement and other materials get lodged in your lungs or your gastrointestinal tract. so this is our last call. it's a plea. we will keep at this, but today

0:54:19 to 0:54:36( Edit History Discussion )

Charles Schumer: is the day to step up to the plate. i urge my colleagues to please support those brave men and women who were there for us, for america. do not come up with an excuse as to why not you can't do it. we have marched and marched and