The Daily Show pointed this article out to me:

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9H9C12G1.htm

The line that got to me is not the title: "House rejects bill to aid sick 9/11 responders" but the reasons why:
"Bill supporters said that would close a tax loophole. Republicans branded it a corporate tax increase." GOP critics branded the bill as yet another big-government "massive new entitlement program" that would have increased taxes and possibly kill jobs.

"To pay the bill's estimated $7.4 billion cost over 10 years, the legislation would have prevented foreign multinational corporations incorporated in tax haven countries from avoiding tax on income earned in the U.S." Give me a break