U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.), and U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined RECA advocates for a press conference calling on House Speaker Mike Johnson to hold a vote on a Senate-passed bill that would strengthen the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). It has been over… Read more »
Today, Congresswoman Leger Fernández signed on to a bipartisan, bicameral letter urging House Speaker Mike Johnson to immediately act to pass the Radiation Exposure Compensation Reauthorization Act (RECA). This legislation would reauthorize and strengthen the RECA program which was approved by the Senate with strong bipartisan support in March. This legislation is critical for… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández issued the following statement after the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report failed to include the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). Read more »
Washington, D.C. – September 21, 2023 - Today, U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) and James Moylan (R-Guam) and U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján, (D-N.M.) Josh Hawley, (R-Mo.) held a press conference with advocates, downwinders, and uranium workers on the extension of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) program. Earlier this year, Senators Luján and Hawley successfully led the U.S. Senate to pass a historic expansion of the RECA program in the National Defense Authorization Act. This press conference celebrated progress and drove support for the RECA legislation. Congresswoman Leger Fernandez discussed the next steps to ensure this expansion of RECA stays in the final National Defense Authorization Act. Read more »
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) and James Moylan (R-GU) and U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) reintroduced bipartisan legislation designed to strengthen the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) to compensate individuals exposed to radiation while working in uranium mines or living downwind from atomic weapons tests. Read more »
Today, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it has issued a license to Holtec International to construct and operate a consolidated interim storage facility in Lea County, New Mexico.
If constructed, the NRC license authorizes the facility to store up to 8,680 metric tons of commercially spent nuclear fuel for a 40-year term. Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández… Read more »
Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) secured the signing of a bill to extend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA).
The Congresswoman led the bipartisan House effort to pass the two-year extension through Congress with bipartisan support last month. The program was scheduled to sunset in July 2022.
For over thirty years, RECA has provided… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) and U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) applauded the House passage of a two-year extension of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) in the U.S. House of Representatives. Read more »
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández and Congressman Burgess Owens led a bipartisan letter to Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Hoyer, Minority Leader McCarthy, and Minority Whip Scalise. Read more »
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) announced today that the House Judiciary Committee passed her Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) Amendments of 2021 (H.R. 5338). Read more »
