Navajo Nation leaders call for vote on Radiation Compensation Exposure Act
Navajo Nation tribal leaders are the latest to call on Congress to reinstate the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. Navajo President Buu Nygren, Navajo National Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley, and dozens of others marched in Washington on Tuesday urging House Speaker Mike Johnson to hold a vote on the bill.
Advocates on long road to reinstate federal radiation exposure act
About 30 people are driving nearly 30 hours from New Mexico to Washington D.C. to protest in the hopes of getting RECA put before U.S. House vote.
NM advocates, lawmakers pressure House speaker on compensation for radiation exposure
Roger's father worked in a uranium mine in Cove, Arizona, she told an audience of reporters, advocates and elected leaders at a news conference in Washington Tuesday. As the oldest of five children, she helped her mother wash his work clothes,
Cancer victims implore U.S. House to take up compensation for radiation exposure
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson is holding up compensation for generations of Americans who developed cancer after exposure to the nation’s nuclear weapons program, several members of Congress said Tuesday.
Indigenous advocates from NM to travel to DC, demand compensation for radiation exposure
Local Indigenous communities that have been impacted by long-term uranium exposure will be traveling to Washington D.C. on Sunday to demand that Congress pass a bill that will compensate those exposed to radiation.
Hawley renews push for compensation for radiation victims
Missouri, is renewing his push to provide compensation for radiation victims in the St. Louis area and other parts of the country. Hawley’s original bill that would have extended the life span of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act passed the U.
Tribes will travel to Washington to lobby lawmakers to revive Radiation Exposure Compensation Act
Members of several Native tribes will travel to Washington, D.C. in an attempt to get lawmakers to revive a program aimed at helping them afford healthcare due to toxic poisoning.
Hawley in ‘one-on-one’ talks with Speaker Johnson over radiation exposure bill
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is talking “one-on-one” with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) about how to get a program for ...
Nuclear radiation compensation advocates call on western Republicans to ask Johnson for vote
Advocates for an expired radiation compensation bill pressed a group of western Republican House members, many of them facing ...
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House Democrats dig in amid ongoing fight in Congress over compensation for US radiation victims
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A top Democrat in the U.S. House says it will take a shift of power in Congress to ensure that legislation is finally passed to extend and expand a compensation program ...
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Nuclear radiation compensation advocates call on western Republicans to ask Johnson for vote
for a vote on a bill to expand and reauthorize the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), which expired earlier this summer. The letter is addressed to Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), ...