{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-visits-st-louis-area-impacted-radioactive-waste-vows-justice-community/", "Hawley Visits St. Louis Area Impacted by Radioactive Waste, Vows Justice for Community", "2023-07-13", "2023", "2023-07", "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.) traveled to the St. Louis region where he visited the Jana Elementary School and Coldwater Creek, areas both affected by decades-old nuclear waste. During a rally with advocates from the community, Senator Hawley called on the federal government to authorize a fund for St. Louis residents who fell victim to radioactive contamination due to bureaucratic negligence and vowed to do everything in his power to bring the community justice.\n\n\u201cNow we have got to put in place this fund to make whole every person who has been ill and who has suffered any kind of negative consequence from this,\u201d said Senator Hawley. [\u2026] \u201cThe federal government has done this before for other victims of their nuclear programs.\u201d\n\n\u201cYour government asked you to bear the brunt of a nuclear program that they never owned up to and its effects, and now it\u2019s time that they gave you some basic justice for what they have done,\u201d Senator Hawley concluded.\n\nBackground\n\nSenator Hawley has consistently advocated on behalf of the Coldwater Creek community. Yesterday, Senator Hawley spoke on the Senate floor where he announced new legislation to create a fund for the victims of radioactive contamination in the St. Louis region.\n\nSenator Hawley\u2019s legislation mandating the clean up of Jana Elementary School in the Hazelwood School District and radioactive waste testing recently passed the U.S. Senate. Biden\u2019s Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm also vowed to support it.\n\nIn March, Senator Hawley delivered remarks on the Senate floor and attempted to unanimously pass his legislation to clean up Jana Elementary School and test the surrounding buildings in the Hazelwood School District, but it was blocked.\n\nIn early March, Senator Hawley called out the Biden Administration for its lack of action on the Jana Elementary School cleanup.\n\nIn February, Senator Hawley introduced the Justice for Jana Elementary Act following an Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing where he pushed the DOE for answers on the radioactive waste found at the school.\n\nIn January, Senator Hawley and Congresswoman Cori Bush sent a letter to USACE Lieutenant General Spellmon calling for additional radioactive testing of Hazelwood School District\u2019s properties.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:25:20Z"]], "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/hawley-visits-st-louis-area-impacted-radioactive-waste-vows-justice-community/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0606180876493454, "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"}