{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-brings-missourians-impacted-radioactive-waste-us-capitol-threatens-hold-ndaa/", "Hawley Brings Missourians Impacted by Radioactive Waste to U.S. Capitol, Threatens to Hold Up NDAA", "2023-11-28", "2023", "2023-11", "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.) welcomed Missouri grassroots advocates impacted by federal government-caused nuclear waste to the U.S. Capitol. He repeated his pledge to oppose and hold up the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) if it does not include compensation for the victims of decades-old radiation in the greater St. Louis area.\n\n\u201cIf this emerges from a back room, and this provision is out, the defense bill is going to face tough sledding on the floor of the Senate. [\u2026] I am not going to vote to pay defense contractors hand over fist while the people of my state\u2014and, frankly, across the country\u2014are denied the compensation that they\u2019re due,\u201d said Senator Hawley.\n\nHe continued, \u201cI don\u2019t quite understand how it is that we may not have money available to compensate radiation victims in the state of Missouri\u2014who have the highest rates of cancer in the nation\u2014but we have unlimited funding for Ukraine.\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nSenator Hawley has consistently advocated on behalf of the Coldwater Creek community and all Missourians impacted by government-caused nuclear contamination.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:49:58Z"]], "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/hawley-brings-missourians-impacted-radioactive-waste-us-capitol-threatens-hold-ndaa/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8297101594507694, "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"}