{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-renews-push-to-pass-reca-deliver-nuclear-radiation-victims-with-needed-compensation/", "Hawley Renews Push to Pass RECA & Deliver Nuclear Radiation Victims with Needed Compensation", "2024-09-19", "2024", "2024-09", "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.) today gave remarks on the Senate floor, urging the House of Representatives to pass his legislation to reauthorize and expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) which has already passed the Senate twice.\n\nSenator Hawley\u2019s speech comes after a new Wall Street Journal opinion piece this week falsely claimed victims of Manhattan Project-era testing in various parts of the country were \u201cnever harmed\u201d and are undeserving of government compensation.\n\nClick here or above to watch the full remarks.\n\n\u201cThis country\u2019s success in the second world war and in the Cold War was driven by our nuclear program. [\u2026] It was made possible by the work and the sacrifices of everyday Americans in states like New Mexico and Arizona, and, yes, my home state of Missouri where we processed uranium for the government,\u201d Senator Hawley explained.\n\n\u201cI read today in The Wall Street Journal yet another attack on these good Americans, an attack that appears to have the support of member of Congress [\u2026] I don\u2019t know how anybody\u2014why anybody\u2014would want to attack victims of nuclear radiation,\u201d said Senator Hawley. \u201cAnd they\u2019re not just victims, Mr. President. They\u2019re heroes.\u201d\n\nSenator Hawley went on to announce that he will host nuclear-radiation advocates on Capitol Hill next week in a renewed push to pass RECA in the House.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"]], "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-renews-push-to-pass-reca-deliver-nuclear-radiation-victims-with-needed-compensation/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.967217143625021, "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"}