First responders to the World Trade Center attacks and members of New York's Congressional delegation gathered at Ground Zero on Monday to head off $38 million in scheduled budget cuts to the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act.Last year, Congress passed legislation calling for automatic budget cuts of $1.2 trillion over the next decade if a bipartisan "super committee" failed to reach an agreement on deficit-reduction measures. The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction declared an impasse on Nov. 21, 2011.At a rally at the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World ...
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