This is an amendment designed to take care of and put in a special employee cohort, workers in some very dirty nuclear bomb plants in Iowa and Missouri, back in the 1940s and 1950s. I believe we have worked that out. I think the amendment will be set aside. It is relatively inexpensive--$180 million over 10 years. I hope my colleagues will be willing to accept it.
Discussing an amendment for workers in nuclear bomb plants during Senate floor debate.
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