There is a bill in the Senate that passed the House by a
vote of 382-0. They tried to vote on it in the Senate and by all indications
Senator Mike Enzi is one of two senators that are objecting to the Bills.
HR 299 will help Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans received
much needed VA benefits. From 1991 until 2002, these veterans did receive VA
benefits, but by a stroke of a pen the VA decided to removed these veterans
from receive the VA benefits.
What HR 299 does is provide benefit to about 90,000 Blue
Water Vietnam veterans that were exposed to Agent Orange. It has been proven
that Blue Water Navy Vietnam veterans were exposed up to 10 times the amount as
those veterans that had “boots On The ground.”
We are not asking that anything is removed from other
veterans, they deserve the benefits. We are asking that we be treated the same
way our veteran brothers who served “Boot on the Ground” were.
Senator Mike Lee has placed a hold on the bill because of
the lies the VA are telling him. They tell him that up to 400,000 veterans
would be affected. The actual number is between 60,000 and 90,000. The VA has
inflated the cost and convinced the Congress Budget Office to increase the
amount of the bill way too high. During a Veterans Affairs Committee hearing,
they stated that adding new veterans would cause them more work.
I think Senator Lee should be ashamed of what he is doing to
the Blue Water Navy Vietnam veterans. He stated that the VA is doing ANOTHER
study. In Public Law 102-4, Agent Orange Act of 1991, the law required that the
VA do the research and studies. They were required to test veterans; they never
did. If
Mike Yates, National Commander
Blue Water Navy
Vietnam Veterans Association
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