Find out if your member of Congress is a co-sponsor of the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act of 2024 (S. 4724/H.R. 9101)

Why you should know if your Member of Congress co-sponsored the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act of 2024 (S. 4724/H.R. 9101)

In the coming years there will be a growing funding shortfall facing the World Trade Center Health Program. Unless Congress acts, starting in 2028 the WTC Health Program would have to stop accepting new injured 9/11 responders and survivors from enrolling in the program with service cutbacks to follow in subsequent years.

This is at a time when the number of responders and survivors coming forward with illnesses and cancers related to their exposure to toxins at Ground Zero grows every day.  When nearly every other day, another 9/11 responder or survivor dies from a 9/11 related cancer. 

With recent studies that indicate that 9/11 responders are facing possible cognitive decline because of their work at Ground Zero.

We cannot let that happen.

It will again require urging Members of Congress to truly remember 9/11.

As we had to in prior years, we will need to call on Congress to act!

These are the facts today:

There are over 132,000 responders and survivors in the World Trade Center Health Program who live in all 50 states and in 434 out of 435 Congressional districts getting health care and or medical monitoring.   Over 83,000 of them have at least one certified 9/11 condition caused by toxins at Ground Zero, the Pentagon and the Shanksville crash site, while a large percentage have multiple conditions.

Chronic diseases like asthma, obstructive pulmonary disease, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and cancer continue to plague those who were exposed to the many toxins and carcinogens on 9/11 and in the weeks and months thereafter.

Over 29,000 of those enrolled in the Health Program have been certified with a 9/11 related cancer, with more being diagnosed every day. Thousands more who have been diagnosed with cancer are only now joining the health program, so these numbers will increase dramatically.

It has taken years of effort to get a handle on the size and scope of the health crisis facing so many.  The statistics and data we have now were not available in 2010 when the legislation was first passed, or in 2015 during the reauthorization.

Now that these facts have become known, and we have a better understanding of the number of people that are sick and dying from their 9/11 exposures, it is up to Congress to act.

Congress must provide the funds needed by the World Trade Center Health Program so that these devasting cuts can be reversed- cuts that are impacting the lives of thousands of injured and still suffering, as well as the families of those that have died.

Congress also needs to make sure that all responders to the Pentagon and Shanksville Crash site can join the program.

Remember: it was the Federal government that said the air was safe to breathe.

It was also the Federal government that refused for years to take responsibility, to do the research and respond to the health crisis that is facing so many.

Given the information we now have on the scope of the health crisis and the funding shortfall the World Trade Center Health Program faces, it is our hope that Congress will in fact remember 9/11 by providing the needed funds and passing 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act of 2024 (S. 4724 /H.R.9101).

Here’s how the tool works so that you can call your member of Congress and urge them to join in this effort.

Type in your address above and we will look up your Members of Congress and tell you if they:

Are co-sponsors of the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act of 2024 S.4724/ H.R.9101.

If they were in Congress in 2019, whether they co-sponsored the 2019 the “The Never Forget the Heroes: James Zadroga, Ray Pfeifer, and Luis Alvarez Permanent Authorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act” that year.

The number of 9/11 responders and survivors they represent who participate in the WTC Health Program.

Most importantly, if they are not co-sponsors of the legislation to fully fund the World Trade Center Health Program 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act of 2024 and we will tell you what they have said about 9/11 in the past so you can demand they live up to their own words.

We will also give you the phone number to their office in Washington or connect you to their office so you can call and thank them if they co-sponsored the bill or let them know that you need them to help 9/11 responders and survivors if they have not.

Footnotes

(1) Footnote on co-sponsoring of 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act of 2024 HR.9101 and S.4724 by Members of Congress. Whether a Member of Congress is a co-sponsor of the legislation comes from the Library of Congress:

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(2) Footnote on co-sponsoring of HR. 1327/ S. 546) in 2019 by Members of Congress. Whether a Member of Congress was a co-sponsor of the legislation comes from the Library of Congress:

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(3) Footnote on statistics: Some of the statistics presented in the tool are in the form of a range — for example, “1 to 9.” This is because the data at low levels is purposefully “masked” by the World Trade Center Health Program to prevent the possible identification of specific participants.

The statistics for the World Trade Center Health Program for States and Congressional districts are as of June 2024.