Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Department of Justice Emails Description An account of the resource The Department of Justice received more than 11,000 e-mails in response to the agency's public solicitation for comments upon its plans to distribute the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 established by Congress to benefit the victims of September 11 and their families. These e-mails have been organized here by date. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. November 20, 2001 Mr. Kenneth L. Zwick Director, Office of Management Programs Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20530 Dear Mr. Zwick: We are writing to bring to your attention concerns that have been raised by some of our constituents regarding the rules governing the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. We represent the State of New Jersey, which has suffered substantially because of the attack on the World Trade Center. Sadly, a great many of the victims of the attack were New Jersey residents. One community lost over 36 residents, more than it lost in all of World War II. As you know, Congress established the Victim Compensation Fund to ensure that victims of the attack and their families would receive prompt and fair payment. Recently, many of these families have contacted us to raise concerns about the Fund. In particular, families are concerned that given the large amounts of potential claimants, the Fund will be administered in a manner that limits their due process rights and fails to give them an adequate opportunity to establish their eligibility for relief. Families also are concerned that their benefits may be reduced to account for payments received from other sources, including funds received by charities. These concerns have been forwarded to your office as part of the public comment on the Victim Compensation Fund. We hope you will take these concerns in mind as you develop the rules governing the Fund. In our view, ensuring prompt payment to victims and their families must be the government's paramount concern in administering the Fund. Many of these families are now struggling to pay their bills and rebuild their lives. It is essential that they be given an adequate opportunity to establish their eligibility for relief, without unnecessary red tape, and that they be provided with the full compensation to which they are entitled. To ensure that the families are given adequate opportunity to voice their concerns, we urge you to hold a public hearing on the draft regulations in the next few weeks. Thank you for your urgent attention to this matter. Sincerely, Comment by: Robert G. Torricelli Jon S. Corzine UNITED STATES SENATOR UNITED STATES SENATOR September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-20 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource dojW000798.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2001-11-20