Victims of radiation exposure are aiming to ramp up the pressure on the House to take up a Senate-passed bill that would extend and expand the compensation fund for those harmed by radiation from America’s development of nuclear weapons.
The bill sponsored by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has fairly broad support in both parties, but it has been sitting on the clerk’s desk in the House for two months awaiting a leadership decision to put it on the floor.
Advocates for the measure — including veterans, mine workers and residents of areas exposed to radiation from nuclear tests and uranium processing — plan a lobbying blitz this week to demand action before the current Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, or RECA, expires on June 7.
