Tom Harkin: “This amendment authorizes adding workers who were employed in nuclear weapons facilities in Missouri and Iowa who are…”

“This amendment authorizes adding workers who were employed in nuclear weapons facilities in Missouri and Iowa who are suffering from serious cancers to the group of workers who are already eligible for automatic compensation. The groups of workers eligible for automatic compensation, a 'special exposure cohort, as it is called', already exists for workers from Kentucky, Ohio, Alaska, and Tennessee. But since this original legislation was passed in 2000, we have learned a great deal more about the facilities in Iowa and Missouri that makes it necessary to include the Iowa and Missouri workers in the special exposure cohort as well.”