"It's important that you stay in everyone's mind and remind people and go to meetings and say to people, 'Hey, remember to include us, '" Macko said.

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We need to pass it for women like Leslie Macko, who lost her job at a fitness center last year and has been looking for work ever since.

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Charles Schumer, D-New York, with Macko at his side, proposed federal legislation to grant the 1993 families access to the multibillion dollar Special Victims Compensation fund established in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

CNN: New York remembers 1993 WTC victims