{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-puts-congress-on-notice-pledges-to-block-utah-only-reca-deal-that-excludes-missourians-other-americans/", "Hawley Puts Congress on Notice, Pledges to Block Utah-Only RECA Deal that Excludes Missourians & Other Americans", "2024-12-10", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Josh Hawley", "H001089", "www.hawley.senate.gov", "hawley", "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) spoke on the Senate Floor today, vowing to block any continuing resolution containing a Utah-only Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) deal. This special-interest proposal would fail to compensate victims of the federal government\u2019s nuclear program in Missouri and across America.\n\nSenator Hawley\u2019s speech follows rumors of a back-room deal percolating in the House of Representatives that would compensate radiation victims from only select counties.\n\n\u201cAnd, now, at this last minute, for House leadership to be preparing . . . to shove down the throats of these victims across the country, a back-room deal that excludes almost all of them, is not only unacceptable, Mr. President, it is absolutely offensive,\u201d Senator Hawley stated.\n\nThe Senator has been in ongoing negotiations with House leadership to strike a RECA deal that would compensate Americans across the country and right the wrongs of federal-government negligence.\n\nThe Senate has twice passed Senator Hawley\u2019s legislation to reauthorize and expand RECA by a strong bipartisan vote of 69-30. His bill would expand compensation for radiation victims beyond Utah to other affected states, including Missouri and New Mexico.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"]], "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-puts-congress-on-notice-pledges-to-block-utah-only-reca-deal-that-excludes-missourians-other-americans/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9964928030967712, "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"}