[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11638]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  DESIGNATING OCTOBER 30, 2014, AS A NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR 
                    NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM WORKERS

  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that the Judiciary Committee be 
discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 417.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the resolution by title.
  The assistant bill clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 417) designating October 30, 2014, as 
     national day of remembrance for nuclear weapons program 
     workers.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the 
resolution.
  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, 
the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered 
made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The resolution (S. Res. 417) was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  (The resolution, with its preamble, is printed in the Record of 
Tuesday, April 8, 2014, under ``Submitted Resolutions.'')
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, this a very important piece of legislation. 
Most of the nuclear weapons program workers are in Nevada, at the 
Nevada test site. At one time we had 12,000 people working there on a 
weapons program and many of them got sick because we didn't know the 
dangers of nuclear weapons. We had many of them sitting above ground 
and soldiers and workers would be out there with stuff floating around. 
People can drive out there, if they can get through all the security 
checkpoints, but they have bleachers still there that were set up to 
watch the nuclear weapons go off. Then we had about 1,000 nuclear 
devices at the Nevada test site that were detonated above ground, in 
tunnels, in shafts. So there truly does need to be a day of 
remembrance, and I congratulate those Senators who have moved this 
forward.

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