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PHOENIX — The $1.2 trillion budget package that Congress was working to pass March 22 included everything from protection for gas stoves to restrictions on payments to the Chinese government. What it didn’t include was an extension for the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which compensates people who lived downwind from nuclear test sites and developed cancer as a result.

In her younger years, Phoenix mayor Kate Gallego, 42, never imagined she would one day run the fifth largest city in the country.

Downwinder groups from the West are encouraging the public to express support for RECA's expansion, including to House Speaker Mike Johnson.

An effort to extend and expand compensation to people exposed to radiation from federal nuclear testing and uranium mining was not included in the $1.2 trillion funding package signed by

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PHOENIX – The $1.2 trillion budget package that Congress was working to pass Friday included everything from protection for gas stoves to restrictions on payments to the Chinese government.

An effort to extend and expand compensation to people exposed to radiation from federal nuclear testing and uranium mining was not included in the $1.2 trillion funding package signed by President Joe Biden this week. 

Arizona leaders are urging federal officials to make sure the state gets its fair share of $650 million in new funding for border services.

The latest appropriations bill passed by Congress contains $1.7 million in earmarks – now officially known as Community Funding Projects – for two Mesa water infrastructure initiatives viewed by the

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lawmakers have approved a $1.2 trillion package of budget bills that includes funding for 42,000 new beds in migrant detention facilities and for the hiring of an