If we fail to do that, I am concerned that when we look at this chart that shows the growth in Alaska production, that t...
the importance of this issue led me to co-sponsor the Grassley-Murkowski amendment.
Clearly, the Department of Energy had a substandard operation when it came to implementing this compensation program.
Have you advised the Alaskan claimants that there is no willing payor?
We must make sure that claimants found eligible for benefits are promptly compensated.
This amendment is intended to address one of the two major failures in the implementation of the Energy Employees Occupa...
It's an insult to the Americans who worked in these plants.
I was assured [by DOE] that the contractor would be notified and asked to accept primary liability for my claim and woul...
This is simply unacceptable. Let me repeat--this is unacceptable.
In many cases we have had Alaskans dying while waiting for their claims to be resolved.
Our nation owes them a debt of gratitude.
I appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I offered an amendment in September with your colleague here Senator Murkowski co-sponsoring the amendment.
I hope that the committee is beginning to understand the frustration I've experienced.
So if it is none, if it is zero--and we have also made that assumption, that there are none--what was the purpose of put...
Processing 25 percent of claims in six months is about 156 claims a week.
Essentially, they are being litigated to death, which is absolutely unacceptable, just unacceptable.
It seems like what we are doing is we are setting people up here and giving them some hope...
