The Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee unanimously approved a bill Wednesday to provide medical care for Marines — and, in certain circumstances, their families — who served on Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base in North Carolina and were exposed to contaminated water there.
Under the deal cut by Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) DoD will foot the bill of the legislation and the VA will provide the care for the treatment for any veteran who served on the base for any reason. Dependents of those veterans, however, must prove a “causal relationship” with the illness they suffer from and the water contamination, according to the bill. HHS officials have been studying the problem since 2005 to determine who has been harmed by the contamination.
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