Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) — Friday, Sens. Ben Ray Luján and Martin Heinrich reintroduced the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, again. Last year, Luján led an effort supported by New Mexico’s entire congressional delegation to expand the Department of Justice program, which was established in 1990. Uranium miner workers who worked in uranium mines after 1971 were not originally included in the program, and New Mexicans who lived downwind of the Trinity Test have never been included. Although the same bill to expand the compensation program passed the U.S. Senate in 2024, House Speaker Mike Johnson never brought the bill to the House floor for a vote.
