{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-holds-reca-victory-rally-to-celebrate-justice-for-victims-of-radioactive-waste/", "Hawley Holds RECA Victory Rally to Celebrate Justice for Victims of Radioactive Waste", "2025-07-08", "2025", "2025-07", "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.) led a RECA victory rally in St. Louis to celebrate new funding for radioactive waste survivors in Missouri and other states. His announcement comes after a two-year battle that resulted in theRadiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) expansion in the \u201cBig, Beautiful Bill,\u201d which President Trump signed into law last week.\n\nThe Senator\u2019s expansion provision revives RECA for survivors, allows tens of thousands of new claimants to receive life-saving assistance\u2014including those across Missouri\u2014and protects the program for years to come. For two years, Senator Hawley has led the fight to secure funding for survivors of nuclear contamination across the country, passing a reauthorization bill through the Senate in July 2023 and March 2024.\n\n\u201cIt wasn\u2019t just the people of Missouri who had waited for seventy years to have justice done. It was the people of the Navajo Nation; It was the people of Utah; It was the people of New Mexico; It was the people of Idaho; It was the uranium miners and atomic veterans from all over the country, who have been waiting for decades for the federal government to finally own up to what it had done,\u201d Senator Hawley said. \u201cRECA is the government saying, \u2018what we did was wrong. Lying to you was wrong, and we are finally going to make it right.'\u201d\n\nDisplaying the nationwide impact of the legislation, Senator Hawley was joined at the RECA victory rally by Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren; Missouri RECA activists Dawn Chapman and Karen Nickel; New Mexico downwinders Maggie Billman and Laura Greenwood; Arizona downwinder Sherrie Hanna; Keith Kiefer of the National Association of Atomic Veterans, and many more.\n\nNavajo Nation President Buu Nygren thanked Senator Hawley in his remarks for leading the fight in Congress to obtain compensation for radiation victims in Missouri and across the nation.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:48:13Z"]], "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-holds-reca-victory-rally-to-celebrate-justice-for-victims-of-radioactive-waste/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9636916220188141, "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"}