{"id":1997263,"date":"2023-08-10T21:39:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T01:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawley-says-we-need-action-after-biden-is-open-to-providing-aid-to-oppenheimer-nuclear-test-victims\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T21:41:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T01:41:04","slug":"hawley-says-we-need-action-after-biden-is-open-to-providing-aid-to-oppenheimer-nuclear-test-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawley-says-we-need-action-after-biden-is-open-to-providing-aid-to-oppenheimer-nuclear-test-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawley urges action as Biden considers aid for Oppenheimer nuclear test victims."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhawley-says-we-need-action-after-biden-is-open-to-providing-aid-to-oppenheimer-nuclear-test-victims%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1997263&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Sen. \u2063Josh \u2062Hawley Calls\u200c on President Biden to Take Action for Nuclear Test Victims<\/h2>\n<p>Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO)\u2063 is urging \u2062President Joe Biden to follow\u200b through on his recent statements offering support for victims of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-pushes-biden-to-rejoin-arms-control-accords-exited-by-trump\/\" title=\"Russia pushes Biden to rejoin arms control accords exited by Trump\">nuclear testing<\/a>. During a visit \u200bto \u200ca wind\u2063 tower factory in Belen, New Mexico,\u2064 Biden expressed his willingness to assist \u200bthose affected\u200b by government nuclear testing, stating, &#8220;I\u2019m prepared to help in terms\u200b of making sure that those folks are \u2064taken care of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This declaration\u200b from the \u2064president comes after\u2062 he watched the \u2062film \u2064Oppenheimer, a gripping retelling of the origins of the New Mexico nuclear\u200c testing site.\u200b Hawley commended\u2063 Biden \u200bfor his support, viewing it as an endorsement of the legislation he crafted\u2062 as part\u200b of the National \u200bDefense Authorization Act.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCompensating victims of government-caused nuclear contamination\u200d and negligence should not \u200dbe a partisan issue.\u2064 It\u2019s about justice. I am \u2063glad President Biden has announced his support of\u2062 our amendment, but now we need action,&#8221; Hawley said in a statement Thursday. &#8220;This amendment must be\u2062 included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawley-says-we-need-action-after-biden-is-open-to-providing-aid-to-oppenheimer-nuclear-test-victims\/\" title=\"Hawley urges action as Biden considers aid for Oppenheimer nuclear test victims.\">final negotiated defense bill<\/a> that the President signs into law. And we\u200b also\u2062 must hear from the Biden Administration about their next steps to support\u200d victims in\u200c the St. Louis area \u2062and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hawley&#8217;s\u2062 amendment received Senate approval with a 61-37\u200d vote last\u2062 month. The senator introduced\u200b the \u200bamendment after the \u2064Weldon Spring site in Missouri criticized the Department of Energy&#8217;s cleanup and monitoring efforts in 2021. As a result, Hawley called for\u2062 compensation\u2063 for victims of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/radioactive-boar-pig-hybrids-emerge-from-fukushima-disaster-site-according-to-study\/\" title=\"Radioactive Boar-Pig Hybrids Emerge From Fukushima Disaster Site, According To Study\">radioactive contamination<\/a> at a site in St. Charles\u2062 County, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) also sponsored the amendment on behalf of constituents in his state who were affected\u200d by the federal \u200cgovernment&#8217;s nuclear\u200c bomb testing between 1942 and 1945. The site, known as Trinity,\u200c is now the White Sands Missile Range \u2063and is owned by the Department of Defense.\u200c It\u2064 offers tours twice a year.<\/p>\n<p>Oppenheimer, the\u200d film that inspired Biden&#8217;s\u200c support for nuclear test victims, has earned\u200c an impressive \u200d$552.9 million since its release three\u200d weeks ago, making it the highest-earning World War \u2062II film to date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click\u2063 here<\/a> to \u200dread more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) urges President Joe Biden to back his words with action regarding support for nuclear test victims. During a visit to a wind tower factory in Belen, New Mexico, Biden was questioned about compensating those impacted by government nuclear testing. Biden expressed willingness to assist, stating, &#8220;I&#8217;m ready to provide aid.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1997264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}