{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/they-deserve-to-have-their-communities-cleaned-up-hawley-stresses-urgent-need-to-pass-reca-during-exchange-with-top-science-security-director/", "\u2018They Deserve to Have Their Communities Cleaned Up\u2019: Hawley Stresses Urgent Need to Pass RECA During Exchange with Top Science Security Director", "2024-09-12", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Josh Hawley", "H001089", "www.hawley.senate.gov", "hawley", "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "In today\u2019s Senate Energy Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) renewed his push to reauthorize and expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). Senator Hawley questioned the Director of Science-Security Initiative Integration at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Dr. Shaun Gleason, on his experience working in a facility instrumental to shoring up America\u2019s nuclear prowess during the Manhattan Project and the Cold War.\n\nSenator Hawley stressed the urgency in passing RECA in the House of Representatives after Dr. Gleason testified to the importance American communities played in developing U.S. nuclear technology.\n\n\u201cI couldn\u2019t let the opportunity pass [\u2026] to call on my colleagues in the House to pass [RECA],\u201d urged Senator Hawley. \u201cCompensate these good Americans, who bore the brunt of our effort in the second world war and the Cold War, which we won because of the effort of people at Oak Ridge and in St. Louis [\u2026] who have suffered the effects of the nuclear radiation.\u201d\n\n\u201cThey\u2019re proud to be Americans and to have served in this effort. They deserve compensation, however, just as they deserve to have their communities cleaned up,\u201d Senator Hawley concluded.\n\nWatch the full exchange here, or click on the image above.\n\nBackground:\n\nSenator Hawley has led the effort to reauthorize and expand RECA to compensate Americans affected by decades-old nuclear waste that the U.S. government has failed to clean up.\n\nSenator Hawley has continually urged the House to pass his updated RECA proposal to cover the thousands of radiation victims across the country, including those in Missouri, New Mexico, and the Navajo Nation.", 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/they-deserve-to-have-their-communities-cleaned-up-hawley-stresses-urgent-need-to-pass-reca-during-exchange-with-top-science-security-director/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1720280162990093, "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"}