WataugaWatch: Foxx Votes Against Zadroga Bill

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Foxx Votes Against Zadroga Bill

The U.S. House passed the final compromise version of the 9/11 first responders health-care bill 206-60. Many Republican members didn't even show up for the vote, including Patrick McHenry and Walter Jones, but Congresswoman Virginia Foxx was for sure on hand to cast her usual "no" vote.

Foxx, to 9/11 first responders dealing with some of the rarest and nastiest cancers: "You have my permission to die, bee-yotches."

1 comment:

BikerBard said...: How good to see that smarter representatives prevailed, It was signed into law by the President.
Congratulations!; 10:26 PM

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J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
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