Kirsten Gillibrand faces Senate re-election
Quick ReadAs Congress neared the end of session in December 2010, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand met with a key Republican who was blocking the Zadroga 9/11 health bill.
Photo credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams, Jr. | Democratic U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand at her office in Washington DC. (Feb. 15, 2012)
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As Congress neared the end of session in December 2010, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand met with a key Republican who was blocking the Zadroga 9/11 health bill.
During that 20-minute meeting in his Russell Senate Building office, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) presented his demand: Cut the cost from $7 billion to $4 billion and its 10-year span in half.
"Even though that might have been a deal-breaker...
