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Even as the Senate holds hearings for a proposed law for compensation of asbestos victims, workers in government tunnels say they have been exposed to asbestos for decades with no monitoring or warning. 
 
Recent tests show asbestos levels in tunnels being repaired and maintained by the Capitol Power Plant's tunnel crew are many times higher than the level considered safe and that many workers are esperiencing respiratory problems. 
 
To make things worse, these workers might not be eligible for compensation under the new law, if enacted.

Tunnel workers, Public Citizen team up on asbestos

The Hill - 6/7/2006 9:26 PM

Six members of the Capitol Power Plant’s tunnel crew expressed concern and frustration yesterday about the Architect of the Capitol’s (AoC) failure to protect them from exposure to carcinogenic asbestos while working inside the crumbling infrastructure.
 
The men spoke at an event called by Public Citizen, the liberal watchdog group, after a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act of 2006
 
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