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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

The South African people are right–and we must stand on the right side of history. Urge your congress member to oppose H.R. 7256. @codepink