Political Quotes

“I extend my appreciation for the work done by the managers of this bill. Also, I want to briefly focus on one amendment that was adopted. The fact that these amendments were agreed to en bloc doesn't take away from the importance of this legislation. We can come out here and talk for hours on a piece of legislation, and it has no more meaning than some of these that have just been adopted by the managers of the bill. The one I want to discuss is by Senators Thompson, Voinovich, Reid, and a number of other people, dealing with nuclear test site worker compensation. I had a meeting last week in Las Vegas with a woman named Dorothy Clayton, who, coincidentally, is in town today. Her husband was one of the people working at the test site for over three decades. One of his first duties was to go in after the blast was set off in one of these tunnels and bring out the devices. He had protective equipment on, but of course it didn't work. We didn't know that at the time. This man, who literally gave his life for the country, developed numerous cancers and died a very difficult death. This legislation would compensate people such as Dorothy Clayton's husband and many others who worked at the Nevada Test Site and other nuclear complexes around the country. People such as this made the cold war something we now look back on saying that we won. I want everyone to know that this legislation, which has been around for a long time, is now passed.”