ArchPundit

I was running into all sorts of problems tracking this info down, and it turns out Google was my solution. It’s only as useful as the guy searching it.

Markey’s site contains about all of his correspondence to agencies so his 11th District correspondence was there for the finding.

February 18, 2005

Rep. Markey?s letter to the NRC was motivated by the ordeals of the Sauer family, former residents of Minooka, IL, which is located close to the Dresden nuclear power plant. The family has recently relocated because of concerns about the health impacts associated with living near the Dresden plant, which were heightened because of their daughter?s brain cancer. In June 2003, the NRC was presented with data obtained from the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) that indicate that in Grundy County, IL between 1995-99, the infant mortality rate has doubled, there has been a nearly 400% increase in pediatric cancer and a 38% increase in cancer among those aged 28-44 years old (while the same statistic for all of IL decreased by 8%). Moreover, other statistics show that the incidence of leukemia was 50% higher in men and 100% higher in women in Grundy County than it was in the rest of the State. In its responses to the Sauers, NRC personnel have ignored these statistics and have instead cited a 1990

Actual letter on site

June 29, 2005–commments on a reease by the National Academy of Sciences regarding the safety of nuclear plants—and offers an amendment to at least study the impact of more plants.

Jerry Weller’s response:

Co sponsor a bill with Obama in March of 2006. and yelling about how Exelon should be responsible. I wonder if he was helping out in Massachusetts 7 or if he just counts on others to do his constituent work.