The petition
Clarification and simple marching action orders to all---THIS IS CRITICAL TIME SENSITIVE NOW MAKE THE PHONE CALLS AS REQUESTED GET TO ALL VETERANS ONLINE TO HELP! Sign the petition, notify others of the petition and make the phone calls
Operation Desert Storm Veterans are making headway on Gulf War illness and need help to get House and Senate Defense Subcommittee to listen and to have funds put in to Congressional Directed Medical Research for Gulf War illness! WE got 5 million in FY06 that is being used soon re research proposals were recently reviewed By scientific Merit Review panel. WE got no money for this in FY07. Right now the Hill is working on FY08
appropriations...we need money appropriated and this is happenning now.
WE NEED ALL HANDS ON DECK MAKING CALLS ON THE SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS.
PLEASE HELP YOUR FELLOW VETERANS.
Here is the petition Read it and act call,email, fax the Senators and Representatives on The appropriations list for Defense Subcommittee at the end of this message and help get others this info we need pressure on the phone lines starting in the morning. Email me results at DSNurse@aol.com
IN CARING FOR VETERANS' HEALTH
DON'T FORGET GULF WAR VETERANS
Petition To Congress
DIRECT TO APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEES-Defense Subcommittee HOUSE AND SENATE
TIMING URGENT APPROPS in PROCESS NOW!
Petition To Congress
- 175,000 Gulf War veterans still suffer from chronic multisymptom illness related to the 1991 war, according to the latest Department of Veterans Affairs study
- There are no effective treatments.
- A $5 million pilot research program open to all researchers and conducted by DoD attracted 80 proposals to identify treatments and diagnostic tests in 2006, compared to two treatments studied in the previous fifteen years.
- While $5 million will support only a fraction of these studies, this response demonstrates the interest of the scientific community in improving the health of ill Gulf War veterans.
- As Congress appropriates needed billions for the care of those returning from the current war, we urgently ask that it fund this treatment research program for ill Gulf War veterans at the $30 million level traditionally funded by DoD for Gulf War illness research before it was eliminated from the budget in recent years.
- All major veterans organizations support $30 million funding for the Gulf War Veterans Illnesses Research Program of the DoD Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program.
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---30% of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom are also returning
with ill defined conditions/syndrome Source VA document
- The VA Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses has found that evidence supports a probable link between exposure to neurotoxins and the
development of these illnesses.
- Treatments and diagnostic markers identified through the GWVRP would also serve to protect the health of current and future military personnel and civilians at risk of similar health effects.
Denise Nichols
Vice-Chairman National Vietnam and Gulf War Veterans Coalition
Maj,USAFR(ret)
Operation Desert Storm Flight Nurse
303-422-2962
DSNurse@aol.com
House Committee Appropriations Defense Subcommittee
John P. Murtha (PA), Chair
David Morrison, Subcommittee Clerk
Room H-149 The Capitol
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-2847
Democrats
David R. Obey, Wisconsin, Chair (202) 225-3365
Republicans
Jerry Lewis, California, Ranking Member (202) 225-5861
Fax: (202) 225-6498
MAJORITY
Chair: John P. Murtha (PA)
Norman D. Dicks (WA)
(202) 225-5916 [voice]
(202) 226-1176 [fax]
Peter J. Visclosky (IN)
phone: (202) 225-2461
fax: (202) 225-2493
James P. Moran (VA)
Phone: (202) 225-4376
Fax: (202) 225-0017
Marcy Kaptur (OH)
Tel: (202) 225-4146
Fax: (202) 225-7711
Robert E. "Bud" Cramer, Jr. (AL)
202-2254801
202-225-4392 Fax
)4392 one: (202) 225-4801
Fax: (202) 225-4392
Allen Boyd (FL)
(202) 225-5235
(202) 225-5615 Fax
Steven R. Rothman (NJ)
202-225-5061
202-225-5851 fax
Sanford Bishop (GA)
Phone- (202) 225-3631 Fax- (202) 225-2203
Dave Obey (WI), Ex Officio
MINORITY
Ranking Member:
C.W. Bill Young (FL)
202-225-5961
David L. Hobson (OH)
Rodney P. Frelinghuysen (NJ)
202- 225-5034
Todd Tiahrt (KS)
202.225.6216
fax: 202.225.3489
Roger F. Wicker (MS)
202-225-4306
202-225-3549 fax
Jack Kingston (GA)
Phone: (202) 225-5831
Fax: (202) 226-2269
Email: Jack.Kingston@mail.house.gov
Jerry Lewis (CA), Ex Officio
(202) 225-5861 Fax: (202) 225-6498
SENATE Appropriations Defense Subcommittee
Subcommittee on
Defense
Democratic Subcommittee Members:
Senator Daniel Inouye (Chairman) (HI)
Senator Robert C. Byrd (WV)
Senator Patrick Leahy (VT)
Senator Tom Harkin (IA)
Senator Byron Dorgan (ND)
Senator Richard Durbin (IL)
Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA)
Senator Barbara Milkulski (MD)
Senator Herb Kohl (WI)
Senator Patty Murray (WA)
Republican Subcommittee Members:
Senator Ted Stevens (Ranking Member) (AK)
Senator Thad Cochran (MS)
Senator Arlen Specter (PA)
Senator Pete Domenici (NM)
Senator Christopher Bond (MO)
Senator Mitch McConnell (KY)
Senator Richard Shelby (AL)
Senator Judd Gregg (NH)
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX)
Senator Inouye 202-224-3934 /fax 202-224-6747
Senator Leahy 202-224-4242
Senator Harkin 202-224-3254/ fax 202-224-9369
Senator Mikulski 202-224-4654/fax 202-224-8858
Senator Kohl 202-224-5653/ fax 202-224-9787
Senator Murray 202-224-2621
fax 202-224-0238
Senator Dorgan 202-224-2551/ fax 202-224-1193
Senator Feinstein 202-224-3841
fax 202-228-3954
Senator Durbin 202-224-2152 fax: 202-228-0400
Senator Johnson 202-224-5842 fax 202-228-5765
Senator Landrieu 202-224-5824 fax 202-224-9735
Senator Reed 202-224-4642 Fax 202-224-4680
Senator Lautenberg 202-224-3224 fax 202-228-4054
Senator Nelson 202-224-6551 fax 202-228-0012
Senator Cochran 202-224-5054
Senator Stevens 202-224-3004 fax 202-224-2354
Senator Specter 202-224-4254
Senator Domenici 202-224-46621 fas 202-228-3261
Senator Bond 202-224-5721
Senator MCConnell 202-224-2541
fax 202-224-2499
Senator Shelby 202-224-5744
Senator Gregg 202-224-3324
Senator Bennett 202-224-5444
Senator Craig 202-224-2752 fax 202-228-1067
Senator Hutchinson 202-224-5922 fax 202-224-0776
Senator Brownback 202-224-6521 fax 202-228-1265
Senator Allard 202-224-5941 fax 202-224-6471
Senator Alexander 202-224-4944 fax 202-228-3398
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