The Udall Legacy: Like Father, Like Son

[Bobbieo]

RECA Bill Brings Hopes For 'Justice'
By Kathy Helms
Dine Bureau
Gallup Independent

WINDOW ROCK – Ever since he became a member of Congress in 1999, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., has been fighting to bring justice to the issue of compensation for uranium workers and downwinders.

“My father had a 30 year crusade for justice in the case of the miners and the downwinders, and during the course of that 30 years, he probably involved most of our family. While I was in private practice I worked with him on many of these cases,” Udall said last week regarding his introduction of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2010.

Udall's father, Stewart Udall, who passed away last month at age 90, was a former Secretary of the Interior and a strong advocate of compensation for Navajo uranium miners. He was instrumental in getting the Radiation Exposure and Compensation Act of 1990 passed and testified to its inadequacies at a June 5, 1993, congressional hearing in Shiprock.

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[abq e streeter]

1. Tom's my Senator, and a good man

[Bobbieo]

2. Knew Stew at the U of A - His wife, Lee, was a dormmate.