COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM
TOM DAVIS, Virginia, Chairman
CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, Connecticut
DAN BURTON, Indiana
ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, Florida
JOHN M. MCHUGH, New York
JOHN L. MICA, Florida
GIL GUTKNECHT, Minnesota
MARK E. SOUDER, Indiana
STEVEN C. LATOURETTE, Ohio
TODD RUSSELL PLATTS, Pennsylvania
CHRIS CANNON, Utah
JOHN J. DUNCAN, JR., Tennessee
CANDICE S. MILLER, Michigan
MICHAEL R. TURNER, Ohio
DARRELL E. ISSA, California
JON C. PORTER, Nevada
KENNY MARCHANT, Texas
LYNN A. WESTMORELAND, Georgia
PATRICK T. MCHENRY, North Carolina
CHARLES W. DENT, Pennsylvania
VIRGINIA FOXX, North Carolina
JEAN SCHMIDT, Ohio
HENRY A. WAXMAN, California
TOM LANTOS, California
MAJOR R. OWENS, New York
EDOLPHUS TOWNS, New York
PAUL E. KANJORSKI, Pennsylvania
CAROLYN B. MALONEY, New York
ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, Maryland
DENNIS J. KUCINICH, Ohio
DANNY K. DAVIS, Illinois
WM. LACY CLAY, Missouri
DIANE E. WATSON, California
STEPHEN F. LYNCH, Massachusetts
CHRIS VAN HOLLEN, Maryland
LINDA T. SANCHEZ, California
C.A. DUTCH RUPPERSBERGER, Maryland BRIAN HIGGINS, New York
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, District of Columbia
BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont (Independent)
MELISSA WOJCIAK, Staff Director
DAVID MARIN, Deputy Staff Director/Communications Director
ROB BORDEN, Parliamentarian
TERESA AUSTIN, Chief Clerk
PHIL BARNETT, Minority Chief of Staff/Chief Counsel
SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY, EMERGING THREATS, AND INTERNATIONAL
Hearing held on November 15, 2005
Statement of:
Mather, Susan, M.D., MPH, Chief Public Health and Environmental
Hazards Officer, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, accompanied
by Dr. Mark Brown, Director, Environmental Agents Service, and Rich-
ard J. Hipolit, Assistant General Counsel, U.S. Department of Veterans
Affairs; Dr. Lynn Goldman, Professor of Occupational and Environ-
mental Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Institute of Medicine; and
Sam Potolicchio, M.D., Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurol-
ogy, the George Washington University Medical Center, Institute of
Medicine, accompanied by Susanne Stoiber, Executive Director, Insti-
tute of Medicine
Woods, Mike, Gulf war veteran; Stephen L. Robinson, executive director,
National Gulf War Resource Center, Inc.; Jim Binns, chairman, Re-
search Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses; Dr. Rogene
Henderson, senior scientist, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute;
and Dr. James P. O'Callaghan, member, Research Advisory Committee
on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses
Binns, Jim, chairman, Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veter-
ans Illnesses, prepared statement of
Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by:
Henderson, Dr. Rogene, senior scientist, Lovelace Respiratory Research
Institute, prepared statement of
Kucinich, Hon. Dennis J., a Representative in Congress from the State
of Ohio, prepared statement of
Mather, Susan, M.D., MPH, Chief Public Health and Environmental
Hazards Officer, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, prepared state-
ment of
O'Callaghan, Dr. James P., member, Research Advisory Committee on
Gulf War Veterans Illnesses, prepared statement of
Potolicchio, Sam, M.D., Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology,
the George Washington University Medical Center, Institute of Medi-
cine, prepared statement of
Prepared statement of various individuals
Woods, Mike, Gulf war veteran, prepared statement of
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