Contact your Senator NOW and ask them to Co-sponsor S.901 the Toxic Exposure Research Act of 2015
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 11:11 am
Twelve Senators have signed on in support of S.901, but we are missing your member!
Contact your Senator NOW and ask them to Co-sponsor S.901 the Toxic Exposure Research Act of 2015
Take Action (http://capwiz.com/vva/issues/alert/?ale ... 0943734341)! <----click to send message to your legislator)
Vietnam Veterans of America Legislative Alert
July 17, 2015
Senator Jerry Moran, (KS) has introduced S.901 the Toxic Exposure Research Act of 2015 co-sponsored by Senator Richard Blumenthal (CT).
Among the so-called invisible wounds of war are those brought home by troops that may not manifest for a decade or more? And most tragically, they may pass on genetically to the progeny of our nation’s warriors.
If enacted into law, this bipartisan legislation would establish within the Department of Veterans Affairs a national center for the diagnosis and treatment of health conditions of the descendants of veterans exposed to toxic substances during service in the Armed Forces.
Toxins, such as Agent Orange, have been shown to cause birth defects in the children of military personnel who came into contact with them, either during the Vietnam War, in the storage and transportation of those toxins, or by riding in aircraft that had been previously used to transport the toxins. For Gulf War veterans, the exposure was to chemical weapons that were in an Iraqi ammo dump that was blown up by U.S. Forces at the end of the Gulf War, to oil fires, and possibly to tainted vaccines.
Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), Founding Principle Is "Never again will one generation of veterans abandon another." And we strongly support S.901.
VVA urges you to Take Action NOW enter your zip code and send the prepared letter to your U.S. Senators asking them to join their colleagues Mike Crapo (ID), Richard Durbin (IL), Pat Roberts (KS), Debbie Stabenow (MI), Steve Daines (MT), Jon Tester (MT), Kristen Gillibrand (NY), Charles Schumer (NY), Sherrod Brown (OH), Jeff Merkley (OR), Ron Wyden (OR) and Joe Manchin (WV) to co-sponsor S.901 the Toxic Exposure Research Act of 2015.
Contact your Senator NOW and ask them to Co-sponsor S.901 the Toxic Exposure Research Act of 2015
Take Action (http://capwiz.com/vva/issues/alert/?ale ... 0943734341)! <----click to send message to your legislator)
Vietnam Veterans of America Legislative Alert
July 17, 2015
Senator Jerry Moran, (KS) has introduced S.901 the Toxic Exposure Research Act of 2015 co-sponsored by Senator Richard Blumenthal (CT).
Among the so-called invisible wounds of war are those brought home by troops that may not manifest for a decade or more? And most tragically, they may pass on genetically to the progeny of our nation’s warriors.
If enacted into law, this bipartisan legislation would establish within the Department of Veterans Affairs a national center for the diagnosis and treatment of health conditions of the descendants of veterans exposed to toxic substances during service in the Armed Forces.
Toxins, such as Agent Orange, have been shown to cause birth defects in the children of military personnel who came into contact with them, either during the Vietnam War, in the storage and transportation of those toxins, or by riding in aircraft that had been previously used to transport the toxins. For Gulf War veterans, the exposure was to chemical weapons that were in an Iraqi ammo dump that was blown up by U.S. Forces at the end of the Gulf War, to oil fires, and possibly to tainted vaccines.
Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), Founding Principle Is "Never again will one generation of veterans abandon another." And we strongly support S.901.
VVA urges you to Take Action NOW enter your zip code and send the prepared letter to your U.S. Senators asking them to join their colleagues Mike Crapo (ID), Richard Durbin (IL), Pat Roberts (KS), Debbie Stabenow (MI), Steve Daines (MT), Jon Tester (MT), Kristen Gillibrand (NY), Charles Schumer (NY), Sherrod Brown (OH), Jeff Merkley (OR), Ron Wyden (OR) and Joe Manchin (WV) to co-sponsor S.901 the Toxic Exposure Research Act of 2015.