9/11 First Responders Fight for Health Care Extension

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after undergoing chemotherapy, 9/11 first responder Robert Digiovanni stood angrily outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office, railing about politics interfering with life-or-death issues. Digiovanni, who has non-Hodgkin lymphoma, had been lobbying for legislation to extend expired health care benefits for himself and others who were exposed to toxic dust after the 2001 attacks in New York. But the extension wasn't included in a massive transportation bill released this week, as some expected, and Digiovanni and his fellow firefighters blamed the Republican leader. "I am very scared, very nervous," Digiovanni said Wednesday as he and others protested. "Here we are, all dying, and they're playing politics."
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