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Zadroga's dad ponders stalled legislation

Joseph Zadroga was mystified Thursday about how Republican senators could block the legislation, named for his son, to compensate Ground Zero workers for illnesses stemming from breathing in toxic fumes and dust near the World Trade Center site.

"They take care of everybody else in the world that's sick, but they can't take care of our own people," he said. "I just don't understand it."

Zadroga,...

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