An update out of the nation's capital on the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.

Moylan shared, “The House Rules Committee ruled my amendment to add the RECA expansion language to the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act out of order.”

He added this prevents it from being voted on the floor of the House of Representatives at the end of the week.

The congressman said the primary reason was that offset costs were not provided, which are estimated at around $50 billion.

Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez from New Mexico asked, “How important was the nuclear testing program for our national security and the work and how it impacted the pacific and the place you represent?”

“While the Cold War nuclear testing of the Pacific was essentially a strategic deterrence in the development of our nuclear arsenal, unfortunately, in the pursuit of national security interest, the federal government exposed its citizens to dangerous levels of radiation and the RECA program provided that when the United States makes a mistake it is capable of not only admitting to it was take a step to rectify its failures. So these citizens were unwittingly exposed to our pursuit of strengthening our national security and it must therefore be a solemn promise of the government to remedy this grave injustice. So I got to correct what was wrong. It wasn’t the folks fault and now that we know and have a better understanding of it let’s fix the matter with the RECA authorization,” Moylan said.

The delegate added the issue is far from over and he said there will be another effort in the senate to include this language in their version of the NDAA in the coming weeks.