On the final weekend before Super Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign quickly responded to a New York Times article Sunday scrutinizing the senator's actions on a nuclear leak bill. The story, published on the front page, said "a close look at the path his legislation took tells a different story" from what Obama has said.
Obama's campaign posted on its Web site a lengthy "fact check" about the article defending the senator's work on the bill.
Two years ago, after Illinois residents learned that Exelon Corporation did not disclose leaks at one of its plants, Obama introduced the Nuclear Release Notice Act of 2006, which would require plant owners to report all leaks to state and local authorities, the article reported.
Obama has touted the bill — which never passed the Senate — on the campaign trail, and in December he told voters in Iowa it was "the only nuclear legislation that I've passed," the newspaper reported.
Although it passed the environmental committee, the bill never made to the full Senate, and the senator reintroduced it last fall, according to the report.
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