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The House is expected to approve a bill Friday ensuring that a victims' compensation fund for the Sept. 11 attacks never runs out of money.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate gave final legislative approval Tuesday to a bill ensuring that a victims’ compensation fund related to the Sept. 11 attacks never runs out of money.

The bill would extend through 2092 a fund created after the 2001 terrorist attacks, essentially making it permanent. »

Of course, such animation — the kind drawn by armies of animators, frame by painstaking frame — built the Walt Disney empire and aided in its resurgence in the late 1980s and early ’90s, known as the so-called Disney Renaissance.

Hand-drawn animation actually got tossed a lifeline when Disney bought Pixar in 2006.

Walt Disney himself represents a good case study for the power of personality as expressed through hand-drawn animation. »

An online petition has been launched asking that fines be implemented for people who call 911 to complain about Amber Alerts.

READ MORE: Tempted to call 911 to complain about an Amber Alert?

Many children have been located as a direct result of Amber alerts, but it only works if everyone receives these alerts. »

While I support our heroic first responders, I can’t in good conscience vote for legislation which to my dismay remains unfunded.

But thanks to relentless lobbying, and the game-changing outrage of Jon Stewart, the bill finally passed, to actual applause, in the Senate on Tuesday.

But as John Feal, the ramrod activist behind the bill, reminded everyone afterwards, this wasn't the typical group of professional lobbyists. »