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Claudia Grisales

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Those sickened by u s nuclear testing program take their fight to congress - What They Never Told You

Maggie Billiman, left, and sister Julia Billiman Torres, lead Virginia Chavez, left and Mary Martinez White to a meeting to push for reauthorization of the Radiation Compensation Exposure Act. (Claudia Grisales/NPR)

Between meetings in a busy congressional hallway, a tearful Maggie Billiman tightly gripped a picture of her late parents.

The 63-year-old tribal member worried her visit to the Capitol this week would mark her last chance to fight for families sickened by the nation's nuclear testing program.

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