Tina Cordova, right, an activist with the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, offers a handshake to an attendee of a campaign event with House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican U.S. House candidate Yvette Herrell of New Mexico, during a demonstration in Las Cruces, N.M., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. The Consortium is asking Speaker Johnson to pass a Senate bill to expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to include New Mexico Downwinders and post 1971 Uranium Miners. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)