Editing Darrell Issa (section)

===9/11 first responders===
In April 2008, the ''[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]'' reported that Issa questioned federal expenditures pertaining to disability-compensation claims from [[9/11]] first responders. He was criticized for making comments that the federal government "'just threw' buckets of cash at New York for an attack 'that had no dirty bomb in it, it had no chemical munitions in it'" and asking "why the firefighters who went there and everybody in the city of New York needs to come to the federal government for the dollars versus this being primarily a state consideration."<ref name="Sisk">Sisk, Richard and Michael McCauliff (April 3, 2008). [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/04/03/2008-04-03_gop_rep_darrell_issa_under_fire_from_eve.html "GOP Rep. Darrell Issa under fire from everywhere after 9/11 comments"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080404140836/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/04/03/2008-04-03_gop_rep_darrell_issa_under_fire_from_eve.html |date=April 4, 2008 }}, ''New York Daily News''; accessed November 11, 2016.</ref> In September 2009, Issa's office released a statement indicating that his comments had been misrepresented and that the questions he asked concerned the then still unpassed bill H.R. 3543, which, according to the statement, "would give U.S. taxpayer dollars to those who did not suffer physical injury and did not work at or around Ground Zero."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://issa.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=216%3Asetting-the-record-straight-for-the-911-hearing-held-on-4108&catid=40%3Aissue-statements&Itemid=1|title=Setting the Record Straight for the 9/11 hearing held on April 1, 2008|publisher=issa.house.gov|date=September 11, 2009|access-date=January 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721042740/http://issa.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=216:setting-the-record-straight-for-the-911-hearing-held-on-4108&catid=40:issue-statements&Itemid=1|archive-date=July 21, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-3543|title=H.R. 3543: James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2007 |publisher=govtrack.usa|access-date=January 10, 2011}}</ref>