[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 26, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: January 26, 1994]
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       THE RADIATION EXPERIMENTATION COMPENSATION ACT

  (Mr. FROST asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, today I am introducing the Radiation 
Experimentation Compensation Act to compensate those individuals who 
were the subjects of secret Government radiation tests.
  Over the last few months, we have been hearing about some of these 
experiments. We have learned, for example, that mentally retarded 
children were fed food containing radioactive material. We learned that 
pregnant women were given radioactive medication. We have learned about 
radiation experiments conducted on veterans in VA hospitals. And we 
have learned about 18 people who were injected with plutonium.
  All of these experiments were performed on these people without their 
ever being informed about the nature of the tests, or the likely risks.
  What the Government did to these people was outrageous. Experiments 
like these happened in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, not here. 
Unfortunately, we are now learning that they did happen here.
  We can never fully compensate these people for what their Government 
has done to them. However, we can provide some measure of relief with 
compensation and recognition that the U.S. Government was wrong to 
conduct secret experiments on its citizens.

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