Comedian Jon Stewart assails Congress for ignoring 9/11 first responders fund

Jon Stewart, the popular former host of the late-night comedy program The Daily Show, criticized members of Congress for not attending a hearing on Tuesday on renewing funding for a program that provides health care to first responders who were sickened responding to the Sept. 11 attacks."Sick and dying, they brought themselves down here to speak and no one," Stewart said, pointing to a mostly empty dais.Stewart was testifying before the Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Ci