US Politics: Catering to Iran

Mike Rogers is spending the run-up to the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11 praising the sacrifice of first responders, including a Monroe firefighter who developed cancer after rushing to Ground Zero.

What Rogers failed to mention is that when Congress tried to guarantee medical care for responders sickened by the attacks, he warned the program could threaten the nation’s finances and voted against the legislation twice.

On Wednesday, Rogers posted a video about Capt. David Nadeau, a longtime member of the Monroe Charter Township Fire Department who drove from Monroe to Ground Zero on the evening of Sept. 11, 2001.

“As a result of his heroism, 25 years later — he has cancer,” Rogers wrote. “Nobody deserves this.”

But when Rogers was a member of Congress in 2010, he opposed legislation designed specifically to provide health care to people suffering illnesses from their exposure to the toxic aftermath of the attacks.

During a House Energy and Commerce Committee debate that year, Rogers objected to guaranteeing the health program.

“By making this a new mandatory program, you jeopardize the financial health of the United States of America,” Rogers said.

And he followed through.
On July 29, 2010, Rogers voted against the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which would have created a program to provide medical services and health monitoring to first responders and others suffering from illnesses tied to the attacks. It also would have reopened the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund.

 

Trump steps on Vance’s primetime moment and other takeaways from RNC convention’s second night​



Vice President JD Vance offered Republicans a glimpse of what could be the party’s future on Thursday night, as he hammered home a midterm message with overtures to disaffected voters, a pro-family pitch in personal terms, and plenty of red-meat attacks on Democrats.
Then President Donald Trump stepped on stage.

And he stayed there, for more than 25 minutes, riffing about his favorite opera singers, how ugly he thinks Texas Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton is and urging attendees at one point to “cheat like hell” to keep Republicans in control of Congress – all a night after he covered many of the same topics in a rollicking speech of his own.

He led the crowd in an extended pledge to vote, asking them to promise to “go out with my family, my friends … I don’t care if I’m registered or not, I’m going to try and cheat like hell, like they (Democrats) do.”
“You know what happens if you don’t vote?” Trump said. “You go to hell.”
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