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New Mexico tribal representatives in D.C. to support radiation exposure compensation
A 2,000-mile bus trip has not deterred representatives from Southwest tribes from traveling to Washington, D.C., this week to ...
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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 ...
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A push for compensation for U.S. nuclear testing fallout resumes on Capitol Hill
Dozens of advocates are blanketing Capitol Hill this week to push for Congress to revive a program that provided compensation ...
‘Families are suffering’ Indigenous people impacted by radiation head to Capitol Hill
More than two dozen people from the Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe, Acoma, and Laguna Pueblos, touched by a legacy of radiation ...
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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 ...
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Cancer victims implore U.S. House to take up compensation for radiation exposure
Advocates of expanding compensation for radiation exposure implored U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson to bring the issue to the ...
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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 radiation exposure victims reauthorized in the lower chamber. Hawley told ...
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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.), ...