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The Radiation Exposure and Compensation Act expired Friday after Congress failed to vote on a bipartisan bill that would have extended or expanded coverage.
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The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act sunsets on June 10. The Navajo Nation Council is voting on a resolution Monday that would be hand-delivered to U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson.
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The $1.2 trillion budget package passed by Congress Friday didn't include an extension for the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. The legislation compensates people who lived downwind from nuclear test sites and developed cancer as a result.
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Advocates have worked for years to bring awareness to the lingering effects of radiation exposure on the Navajo Nation, where millions of tons of uranium ore were extracted over decades to support nuclear activities.
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Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley and other tribal officials recently advocated in Washington D.C. for the extension of a law that compensates victims of radiation exposure in the West.
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Leaders of the Navajo Nation and New Mexico's congressional delegation expressed outrage with the U.S. House leadership's move to block compensation for people sickened by radiation exposure during nuclear weapons testing and Cold War-era uranium mining.
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Leaders of the Navajo Nation gathered on Capitol Hill this week in support of expanded compensation for those sickened by Cold War radiation exposure.
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President Joe Biden said he’s open to granting assistance for people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing, including in New Mexico, where the world’s first atomic bomb was tested in 1945.
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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a short-term extension of a federal law that provides compensation to residents and workers in the West who were exposed to radiation during the Cold War.
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The U.S. Senate has approved a two-year extension of a federal law that compensates residents in the West who were exposed to radiation during the Cold War. It’s designed to give lawmakers more time to craft a larger expansion of the program.