[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 144 (Thursday, September 7, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5071]
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SA 846. Mr. UDALL (for himself and Mr. Crapo) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2018 for military activities of the
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle B of title XXXI, insert the
following:
SEC. __. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING URANIUM MINING AND
NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING.
It is the sense of Congress that the United States should
compensate and recognize all of the miners, workers,
downwinders, and others suffering from the effects of uranium
mining and nuclear weapons testing carried out during the
Cold War.
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