Is The Seven-Year Effort To
Care For Blue Water Navy Veterans Exposed To Agent Orange Being Torpedoed By
Senate Republicans And President Trump?
Where We Were December 3, 2018:
H.R 299, The Blue Water Navy
Vietnam Veterans Act Of 2018, was passed by the U.S. House
unanimously, 382 to 0, and went to the Senate on June 25. but a week ago,
in an article from
Tom Philpott in Stars and Stripes, we learned that as many as
four Senators had placed a hold on the bill that President Trump has already
agreed to sign, and that the bill was in jeopardy of failure, after seven years
of legislative work by the non-profit, Military Veterans Advocacy, Inc. (MVA). Senators Paul Rand (R-Ky), Mike Lee (R-Ut), Mike Enzi (R-Wy)
And Bill Cassidy (R-La) either had
concerns about the veracity of the science or costs associated with the bill
after years of research, gathering of eye-witness affidavits, capitol hill
political wrangling, and several years of attempted passage of the bill, not to
mention an estimated 20,000 deaths of the approximately 90,000 U.S. Navy Vietnam
veterans exposed to Agent Orange.
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