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Passionate plea for Zadroga bill passage

Rescue workers remove debris as they search for

Photo credit: Newsday/Viorel Florescu | Rescue workers remove debris as they search for survivors at Ground Zero. (Sept. 15, 2001)

Glen Klein retired early as an officer with the New York Police Department's emergency service unit. After working for nine months at Ground Zero, Klein says, he contracted asthma and a bacterial disease in his intestines because of toxins that invaded his body at the World Trade Center.

On Friday, Klein was among supporters of the Zadroga 9/11 health bill at a rally at the site, urging Republicans...

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