Legislative Hearing on H.R. 862, H.R. 1406, H.R. 1435, H.R. 1746, H.R. 1929, H.R. 2359, and H.R. 2361: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Benefits of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session, July 10, 2001U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002 - 211 páginas |
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Página 123 - ... veterans (including their need for accessibility of outreach services), and the necessity of providing appropriate outreach services in less populated areas. (Added PL 91-219, § 214(a).) (b) The Administrator shall establish and carry out all possible programs and services, including special telephone facilities, as may be necessary to make the outreach services provided for under this subchapter as widely available as possible.
Página 167 - Appeals for outreach and direct services through its Veterans Benefits Program (service representatives). This is also true of the previous two fiscal years. For further information...
Página 96 - ... are one large spectrum of illness. The symptoms and findings in individuals with the Persian Gulf Syndrome are the same as those of persons labeled with these other conditions, except that the Persian Gulf Syndrome patients developed these problems during or after deployment to the Gulf War. Why are these illnesses not recognized, and difficult to diagnose? One of the reasons for incomplete recognition of these conditions is that this symptom complex is given many different names, and many different...
Página 117 - ... participation in the VA loan program for Native American veterans living on trust lands. VA is also aware of efforts by the Federal National Mortgage Association to increase private-sector lender willingness to make loans on tribal lands. VA believes a four-year extension of the Native American veteran direct loan program would give both the Executive Branch and the Congress an opportunity to see how various initiatives regarding Native American housing loans affect the ability of these veterans...
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Página 39 - STATEMENT OF HON. RICHARD H. BAKER, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF LOUISIANA Mr. BAKER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate your courtesy in calling this hearing and offering me an opportunity to participate.
Página 109 - War; and (ii) by history, physical examination, and laboratory tests cannot be attributed to any known clinical diagnosis. (2) For purposes of this section, "objective indications of chronic disability" include both "signs," in the medical sense of objective evidence perceptible to an examining physician, and other, non-medical indicators that are capable of independent verification. (3) For purposes of this section, disabilities...
Página 7 - STATEMENT OF HON. TOM UDALL, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO Mr.
Página 28 - Based on this evidence, the committee concluded that there was sufficient evidence of an association between exposure to the herbicides used in Vietnam or their components and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Página 156 - An association between the occurrence of a disease in humans and exposure to an herbicide agent shall be considered to be positive for the purposes of this section if the credible evidence for the association is equal to or outweighs the credible evidence against the association.