{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/grave-injustice-hawley-slams-congressional-leadership-betraying-nuclear-radiation-victims-stripping/", "\u201cGrave Injustice:\u201d Hawley Slams Congressional Leadership for Betraying Nuclear Radiation Victims & Stripping Compensation from NDAA", "2023-12-07", "2023", "2023-12", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Josh Hawley", "H001089", "www.hawley.senate.gov", "hawley", "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) delivered remarks on the Senate floor after Congressional leadership betrayed American nuclear program victims through backroom negotiations. Dealmakers stripped Senator Hawley\u2019s bill to reauthorize the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) from the FY \u201924 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).\n\nSenator Hawley vowed to oppose the final bill and slow down its passage. The Senate voted on an extra procedural motion today after Senator Hawley threw up a roadblock.\n\nThe RECA program\u2014which is set to expire in the coming months\u2014compensates victims poisoned by the federal government through nuclear waste. This includes numerous residents of the greater St. Louis area and across the country. Despite passing the Senate with strong bipartisan support and receiving an endorsement from President Biden, RECA reauthorization was scrubbed from the bill behind closed doors.\n\n\u201cThis is a grave injustice. [\u2026] This [NDAA] turns its back on the people of the United States in defense of the lobbyists, and the suits, and the corporate entities who are going to get paid,\u201d said Senator Hawley.\n\n\u201cTo the people of this nation\u2014tens of thousands who have depended on this compensation, life-saving help, who are now at risk of losing all of it\u2014this fight is not over. [\u2026] I will come to this floor as long as it takes [\u2026] until we compensate the people of this nation, who have sacrificed for this nation, and do not leave them behind,\u201d he concluded.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:56:20Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/grave-injustice-hawley-slams-congressional-leadership-betraying-nuclear-radiation-victims-stripping/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8851569145917892, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}