'Sick and dying, they brought themselves down here to speak to no one,” Stewart said. “It’s an embarrassment to the country, and it is a stain on this institution”
“I’m angry, and you should be too,” Stewart said Tuesday. Over the course of his passionate speech, he lambasted lawmakers for their “rank hypocrisy” regarding the situation. “Your indifference cost these men and women their most valuable commodity: time,” he said. “It’s the one thing they’re running out of. This hearing should be flipped.
During his own testimony, Alvarez revealed that he was one day away from undergoing his 69th round of chemotherapy. “I should not be here with you, but you made me come,” he said. “I will not stand by and watch as my friends with cancer from 9/11, like me, are valued less than anyone else because when they get sick, they die. I have been lucky enough to have 68 rounds of chemo—yeah, you heard me right, 68 rounds. Many others haven’t had the opportunities to have five. And some have had none.
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