Jon Stewart takes aim at Mitch McConnell's record on funding for 9/11 first responders, saying the Senate leader has 'always held out until the last minute, and only then after intense lobbying and public shaming has he even deigned to move on it'
"In terms of getting the 9/11 bills passed, Mitch McConnell has been the white whale of this since 2010," Stewart said on"Fox News Sunday.""This has never been dealt with compassionately by Sen. McConnell." Stewart appeared to reference the character Capt. Ahab's inability to capture the notoriously hard-to-catch albino whale in Herman Melville's novel"Moby Dick.
While Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer last week urged McConnell to put the bill on the floor as soon as the House passes it, Stewart was not optimistic Sunday about the bill's fate in the Senate, grimacing when Fox host Chris Wallace mentioned that the bill needed to move to the Senate after the House."Not all Republicans oppose this, but everyone who has opposed it is a Republican, and it's unacceptable," Stewart said Sunday.
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