An event was held on Thursday to support a bipartisan effort to bring support to the families of victims of terror attacks.

The legislation will bring payments to 5,000 widows and children of Sept. 11 victims and to the families of those killed in attacks in Beirut in 1983 and Saudi Arabia in 1996. President Joe Biden signed the bill into law last month.

Anthony Gardner of the Sept. 11th Education Trust lost his brother Harvey in the attack. He says that the memory of his brother is always with him.

“We live our lives and we think about him every day. And he very much is with us in that sense. But the loss never goes away, you just learn to live with it. And what I've found is comfort in being with other 9/11 family members,” Gardner says.

Sen. Bob Menendez says he considers the Sept. 11 attacks to be “state-sponsored terrorism."

He says that the United States has “strong, strong reason” to believe the Saudi Arabian government backed the 9/11 hijackers.