Watch Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing - VA Secretary final ruling three new presumptive conditions to aid Veterans exposed to Agent Orange

Watch Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing - VA Secretary final ruling three new presumptive conditions to aid Veterans exposed to Agent Orange

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The Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs will hold an Oversight Hearing on VA Disability Compensation Presumptive Disability Decision-Making today. The committee will hear testimony from witnesses regarding the final decision by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs adding three new presumptive illnesses, Parkinson’s Disease, Hairy Cell and other types of chronic, b-cell leukemia, and Ischemic Heart Disease as presumptive-service connected conditions relating to Agent Orange and other toxic exposures.

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When: September 23, 2010

Time: 9:30 a.m.

WITNESS LIST


PANEL I

The Honorable Eric K. Shinseki, Secretary of Veterans Affairs

PANEL II

The Honorable Anthony J. Principi, Former Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Jonathan M. Samet, MD, MS, Chair, Committee on Evaluation of the Presumptive Disability Decision-Making Process for Veterans, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Diane Bild, MD, Associate Director, Prevention and Population Sciences Program, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health.

Linda Birnbaum, PhD, DABT, ATS, Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, and Director, National Toxicology Program, Department of Health and Human Services