The Freedom Tower

The Queens Gazette in New York reports that people from all 50 states and the District of Columbia have enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Registry. This comes from Congress woman Carolyn Maloney. The newspaper says Malone is waging her own campaign to acquire federal funds to treat New Yorkers who have become seriously ill after cleaning up at Ground Zero.
Maloney and Congressman Vito Fossella of Staten Island issued a report which found that thousands of Americans throughout the country were in the immediate vicinity of Ground Zero in the months following 9/11.
So the point here is that people who were once within striking distance of Ground Zero have moved and now live in all fifty states. The geography, of course, isn’t an issue.
The 9/11 health crisis is therefore a national problem. So Maloney seeks federal funds to monitor Americans throughout the country.