Well, Jon Stewart has helped fix at least one problem in America.
access to health care for veterans who were exposed to burn pits, and subsequently diagnosed with rare cancers and respiratory illnesses.of Pennsylvania, who urged Republicans to vote against the bill calling it a “slush fund” for veterans.
Stewart also took his activism offline, speaking at multiple rallies on Capitol Hill and appearing on multiple network news shows over the weekend to advocate for the bill. "Ain’t this a bitch?” he said at a Thursday press conference. “America’s heroes, who fought in our wars, outside sweating their asses off…battling all kinds of ailments, while these motherfuckers sit in the air conditioning, walled off from any of it. They don’t have to hear it, they don’t have to see it.
After failing to reach the 60 votes needed to pass in the Senate last week, The PACT ACT passed on in an 86-11 vote, and now goes to Presidentand suggested that the brain cancer that killed his eldest son, Beau, could have possibly been linked to his exposure to burn pits during Beau’s time serving in Iraq and Kosovo.
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