Jon Stewart on Tuesday celebrated a bipartisan Senate vote for regulation offering well being care advantages to hundreds of thousands of veterans uncovered to poisonous burn pits all through their army carrier.
Stewart, who fiercely championed the regulation and denounced Republican senators who blocked it ultimate week, seemed outdoor the Capitol with army veterans who stand to learn, as proven on CNN video.
“I wanna express regret for cursing ultimate week, I don’t know what took place,” stated Stewart. “Most often I’m very demure.”
A few of the ones Republicans relented in Tuesday’s 86-11 vote passing the measure, which targets to assist army staff uncovered to poisonous burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to the herbicide Agent Orange in Vietnam.
“I can say this,” stated Stewart. “I’m now not positive I’ve ever observed a scenario the place individuals who have already given such a lot needed to struggle so laborious to get so little. And I am hoping we realized a lesson.”
Stewart, who hosted “The Day by day Display” till 2015, has been an outspoken suggest for first responders and army veterans via poisonous publicity.
On the Capitol, Stewart hugged Rosie Torres, who based an advocacy workforce known as Burn Pits 360 after her husband Le Roy used to be uncovered to poisonous fumes in Iraq in 2007 and misplaced his process as a Texas state trooper on account of his well being.
“Le Roy, my brother,” Stewart stated, singling out Torres. “I talked to Le Roy 4 years in the past in my place of work and I made a promise to him. I stated, ‘I’m now not gonna assist you to move, my brother’ and ‘we’re gonna get this completed.’ And bet what? We were given it completed. Love you Le Roy.”
