[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15154]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                ENERGY INDUSTRY OCCUPANCY PROTECTION ACT

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Madam Speaker, today I introduced the 
Energy Industry Occupancy Protection Act of 2006. Tomorrow in the House 
Judiciary Committee we will hold a hearing. We will have the 
opportunity to listen to a victim, victims who have been forgotten, 
victims who were engaged in America's warfare protecting America in the 
1940s and 1950s, when they worked around nuclear radioactive material, 
and were not told by the contractors that they, in fact, were 
subjecting themselves to radioactive impact.
  These families, these individuals, some of whom lost their lives, 
were never compensated. I know America can do better. Tomorrow in front 
of our committee, the Judiciary Committee, Immigration Claims 
Committee, we will have an opportunity to lay the record to establish 
that this government must respond to those brave Americans who stood on 
the front lines, providing the resources for our warriors in World War 
II and the Korean War, and yet were never compensated for their 
illness.
  I do hope my colleagues will join me in cosponsoring this 
legislation, pushing it quickly through the committee, through the 
committee, and ensuring that Americans are protected against this 
devastating impact of working on behalf of Americans and fighting on 
the front lines by engaging and providing nuclear materials for the 
wars that we were engaged in.

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