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Jon Stewart pushes VA to help veterans sickened after post-9/11 exposure to uranium

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Jon Stewart pushes VA to help veterans sickened after post-9/11 exposure to uranium

This image provided by Matthew Nicholls shows members of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, which deployed to Karshi-Khanabad air base to assess conditions on the base, taking radiation readings of the soil and uranium in Uzbekistan in 2001. Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans' aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops to respond in defense of the U.S. and who were sent to the contaminated base after the 9/11 attacks. (Matthew Nicholls via AP)

This image provided by Matthew Nicholls shows members of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, which deployed to Karshi-Khanabad air base to assess conditions on the base, taking radiation readings of the soil and uranium in Uzbekistan in 2001. Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans' aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops to respond in defense of the U.S. and who were sent to the contaminated base after the 9/11 attacks. (Matthew Nicholls via AP)

This image provided by Matthew Nicholls shows members of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, which deployed to Karshi-Khanabad air base to assess conditions on the base, taking radiation readings of the soil and uranium in Uzbekistan in 2001. Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans' aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops to respond in defense of the U.S. and who were sent to the contaminated base after the 9/11 attacks. (Matthew Nicholls via AP)

This image provided by Matthew Nicholls shows members of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, which deployed to Karshi-Khanabad air base to assess conditions on the base, taking radiation readings of the soil and uranium in Uzbekistan in 2001. Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans' aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops to respond in defense of the U.S. and who were sent to the contaminated base after the 9/11 attacks. (Matthew Nicholls via AP)

This image provided by Matthew Nicholls shows where members of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, which deployed to Karshi-Khanabad air base to assess conditions on the base, took radiation readings of the soil and uranium in Uzbekistan in 2001. Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans' aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops to respond in defense of the U.S. and who were sent to the contaminated base after the 9/11 attacks. (Matthew Nicholls via AP)

This image provided by Matthew Nicholls shows where members of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, which deployed to Karshi-Khanabad air base to assess conditions on the base, took radiation readings of the soil and uranium in Uzbekistan in 2001. Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans' aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops to respond in defense of the U.S. and who were sent to the contaminated base after the 9/11 attacks. (Matthew Nicholls via AP)

This image provided by Matthew Nicholls shows members of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, which deployed to Karshi-Khanabad air base to assess conditions on the base, taking radiation readings of the soil and uranium in Uzbekistan in 2001. Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans' aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops to respond in defense of the U.S. and who were sent to the contaminated base after the 9/11 attacks. (Matthew Nicholls via AP)

This image provided by Matthew Nicholls shows members of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, which deployed to Karshi-Khanabad air base to assess conditions on the base, taking radiation readings of the soil and uranium in Uzbekistan in 2001. Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans' aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops to respond in defense of the U.S. and who were sent to the contaminated base after the 9/11 attacks. (Matthew Nicholls via AP)

FILE - Entertainer and activist Jon Stewart speaks at the Capitol in Washington, May 26, 2021. Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops who responded after the Sept. 11 attacks. They got sick from staying at at Karshi-Khanabad, Uzbekistan, or K2, a base contaminated with enriched uranium. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

FILE - Entertainer and activist Jon Stewart speaks at the Capitol in Washington, May 26, 2021. Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops who responded after the Sept. 11 attacks. They got sick from staying at at Karshi-Khanabad, Uzbekistan, or K2, a base contaminated with enriched uranium. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

This image provided by Matthew Nicholls shows where members of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, which deployed to Karshi-Khanabad air base to assess conditions on the base, took radiation readings of the soil and uranium in Uzbekistan in 2001. Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans' aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops to respond in defense of the U.S. and who were sent to the contaminated base after the 9/11 attacks. (Matthew Nicholls via AP)

This image provided by Matthew Nicholls shows where members of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, which deployed to Karshi-Khanabad air base to assess conditions on the base, took radiation readings of the soil and uranium in Uzbekistan in 2001. Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans' aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops to respond in defense of the U.S. and who were sent to the contaminated base after the 9/11 attacks. (Matthew Nicholls via AP)

This image provided by Tara Copp shows Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show," third from right, as he stands with veterans and replica warning signs from K2, a former U.S. special operations base in Uzbekistan that was contaminated with the old Soviet chemical and nuclear weapons remnants, in front of the U.S. Capitol in 2020. Stewart began working with K2 veterans as part of his larger effort to get service members care for the toxic exposure-linked illnesses they got from their deployments during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Tara Copp via AP)

This image provided by Tara Copp shows Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show," third from right, as he stands with veterans and replica warning signs from K2, a former U.S. special operations base in Uzbekistan that was contaminated with the old Soviet chemical and nuclear weapons remnants, in front of the U.S. Capitol in 2020. Stewart began working with K2 veterans as part of his larger effort to get service members care for the toxic exposure-linked illnesses they got from their deployments during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Tara Copp via AP)

This image provided by Matthew Nicholls shows members of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, which deployed to Karshi-Khanabad air base to assess conditions on the base, taking radiation readings of the soil and uranium in Uzbekistan in 2001. Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans' aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops to respond in defense of the U.S. and who were sent to the contaminated base after the 9/11 attacks. (Matthew Nicholls via AP)

This image provided by Matthew Nicholls shows members of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, which deployed to Karshi-Khanabad air base to assess conditions on the base, taking radiation readings of the soil and uranium in Uzbekistan in 2001. Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans' aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops to respond in defense of the U.S. and who were sent to the contaminated base after the 9/11 attacks. (Matthew Nicholls via AP)