Political Quotes

“today I am introducing the Radiation Experimentation Compensation Act to compensate those individuals who were the subjects of secret Government radiation tests. Over the last few months, we have been hearing about some of these experiments. We have learned, for example, that mentally retarded children were fed food containing radioactive material. We learned that pregnant women were given radioactive medication. We have learned about radiation experiments conducted on veterans in VA hospitals. And we have learned about 18 people who were injected with plutonium. All of these experiments were performed on these people without their ever being informed about the nature of the tests, or the likely risks. What the Government did to these people was outrageous. Experiments like these happened in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, not here. Unfortunately, we are now learning that they did happen here. We can never fully compensate these people for what their Government has done to them. However, we can provide some measure of relief with compensation and recognition that the U.S. Government was wrong to conduct secret experiments on its citizens.”