At this year’s Meso Foundation Symposium, Senator Chuck Schumer, along with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Congressman Peter T. King, Congressman Charles B. Rangel, Congresswoman Nydia M. Velazquez, Congressman Michael G. Grimm and Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke, was this year’s recipient of the Bruce Vento Hope Builder Award.
The award, presented annually at the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation’s Symposium and named for the late Minnesota Congressman who died from mesothelioma in 2000, acknowledges the support and initiatives of advocates whose work helps to eradicate mesothelioma and eliminate the suffering caused by it.
During the presentation of awards, Sen. Schumer spoke to the Meso Foundation constituents and thanked them for their important work in eradicating mesothelioma and ending the suffering caused by it.
Watch the Senator’s remarks here:
This bipartisan, bicameral group of New York legislators sponsored the original James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 (HR 847) to amend the Public Health Service Act to extend and improve protections and services to individuals directly impacted by the terrorist attack in New York City on September 11, 2001, and for other purposes. This amendment added mesothelioma as a disease covered by the act.
