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Lawmakers tangle on Zadroga bill

An honor guard trumpeter plays during the ceremony on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at the site of Ground Zero in New York September 11, 2010.
The partisan tensions surrounding the healthcare and compensation bill for sick Ground Zero workers today broke into an open war of words between U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-WY, and two of the bill’s authors.
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