"In New Mexico, where the Trinity Test occurred, downwinders are not eligible for assistance. The current law also senselessly leaves out post-71 uranium miners. We must expand the law to ensure that all those affected receive fair compensation."Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Teresa Leger Fernandez:
"This week, I led my House colleagues on a letter to @SpeakerPelosi and @GOPLeader requesting a temporary extension of RECA in the FY22 omnibus to ensure we pass a comprehensive Radiation Exposure Compensation Act expansion bill."Read on Twitter
"In 1945, the United States exploded the first atomic bomb at the Trinity Site in New Mexico. Over the next 48 years, hundreds of nuclear bomb tests exposed workers, miners, and communities of color to dangerous radiation and nuclear fallout."Read on Twitter
"Countless Americans continue to battle cancer and other diseases caused by this exposure, yet too many receive no compensation from the government for the harmful effects of this explosion."Read on Twitter
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