Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) last week called on House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to bring to set a vote on S.3853, a bill to extend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Reauthorization Act, before it expires June 7.
The Senate has done its job, Bush said, passing the bill by more than a two-thirds margin on Feb. 29. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has been a Senate sponsor of renewing and expanding the act, and criticized congressional failure to attach the legislation to critical budget and policy bills.
President Joe Biden has promised to sign the legislation.
Bush appeared April 5 at a press conference near the Coldwater Creek Superfund site in her St. Louis district with leaders of Just Moms StL, a group seeking cleanup of Manhattan Project contamination.
Members of the Missouri Legislature also took part, according to a press release. “To this day, World War II is still killing us in St. Louis,” Bush said in a video of the gathering.