Government Accountability

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) spoke on the Senate Floor today, vowing to block any continuing resolution containing a Utah-only Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) deal. This special-interest proposal would fail to compensate victims of the federal government’s nuclear program in Missouri and across America. Senator Hawley's speech follows rumors of a back-room deal percolating in the House of Representatives that would compensate radiation victims from only select counties....

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statements regarding an alleged Utah-only Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) proposal circulating in the House of Representatives. Senator Hawley strongly opposes the inclusion of this proposal in a year-end spending bill. I’m told House Republicans are considering sneaking a stripped-down version of RECA - covering only part of Utah and nothing else - into the CR. This would be an incredible betrayal to the hundreds of thousands...

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) wrote a letter to Inspector General Joseph Cuffari, who oversees investigations into the Department of Homeland Security and its agencies, calling on him to review complaints of a Biden Administration supervisor who directed her team to avoid providing federal assistance to Floridians who displayed support for President-elect Donald Trump. Senator Hawley's letter comes after new reporting revealed—and FEMA subsequently confirmed—a top-down order by...

Today U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) held a press conference with House lawmakers and victims of nuclear contamination across America – including those from the St. Louis and St. Charles, Mo., areas—to push the House to pass their Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) in an effort to provide justice and compensation for those who have been harmed by the federal government’s decades of negligence. “The wait has been too long, and it has been too cruel, and...