COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM
TOM DAVIS, Virginia, Chairman
CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, Connecticut
ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, Florida
JOHN M. MCHUGH, New York
JOHN L. MICA, Florida
MARK E. SOUDER, Indiana
STEVEN C. LATOURETTE, Ohio
DOUG OSE, California
RON LEWIS, Kentucky
JO ANN DAVIS, Virginia
TODD RUSSELL PLATTS, Pennsylvania
CHRIS CANNON, Utah
ADAM H. PUTNAM, Florida
EDWARD L. SCHROCK, Virginia
JOHN J. DUNCAN, JR., Tennessee
NATHAN DEAL, Georgia
CANDICE S. MILLER, Michigan
TIM MURPHY, Pennsylvania
MICHAEL R. TURNER, Ohio
JOHN R. CARTER, Texas
MARSHA BLACKBURN, Tennessee
PATRICK J. TIBERI, Ohio
KATHERINE HARRIS, Florida
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
JOHN F. TIERNEY, Massachusetts
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 ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, District of Columbia
JIM COOPER, Tennessee
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
Hearing held on June 1, 2004
Statement of:
Bunker, James A., chairman, Veteran Information Network, Gulf war
veteran, Topeka, KS; Derek Hall, Gulf war veteran, United Kingdom;
Janet Heinrich, Director, Health Care-Public Health Issues, U.S. Gen-
eral Accounting Office; Keith Rhodes, Chief General Accounting Office
Technologist, U.S. General Accounting Office; Jim Binns, chairman,
Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veteran Illnesses; and
Steve Robinson, executive director, National Gulf War Resource Center,
Inc.
Morris, the Right Honorable Lord of Manchester
Perlin, Dr. Jonathan B., Acting Under Secretary for Health and Acting
Chief Research and Development Officer, Department of Veterans Af-
fairs,_accompanied by Dr. Mindy L. Aisen, Deputy Chief Research
and Development Officer, and Dr. Craig Hyams, Chief Consultant,
Occupational and Environmental Health, Department of Veterans Af-
fairs; Major General Lester Martinez-Lopez, Commanding General,
U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick,
MD, accompanied by Colonel Brian Lukey, Ph.D., Director, U.S. Army
Military Operational Medicine Research Program, Fort Detrick, MD;
Dr. Robert Haley, professor of internal medicine, University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center; Dr. Rogene Henderson, senior scientist,
Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute; and Dr. Paul Greengard, Vin-
cent Astor professor and head of Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular
Neuroscience, the Rockefeller University, and Nobel Laureate in Medi-
cine 2000
Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by:
Binns, Jim, chairman, Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Vet-
eran Illnesses, prepared statement of
Bunker, James A., chairman, Veteran Information Network, Gulf war
veteran, Topeka, KS, prepared statement of
Greengard, Dr. Paul, Vincent Astor professor and head of Laboratory
of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, the Rockefeller University,
and Nobel Laureate in Medicine 2000, prepared statement of
Haley, Dr. Robert, professor of internal medicine, University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center, prepared statement of
Hall, Derek, Gulf war veteran, United Kingdom, prepared statement
of
Heinrich, Janet, Director, Health Care-Public Health Issues, U.S. General
Accounting Office, prepared statement of.
Henderson, Dr. Rogene, senior scientist, Lovelace Respiratory Research
Institute, prepared statement of
Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by-Continued
Ruppersberger, Hon. C.A. Dutch, a Representative in Congress from the
State of Maryland, prepared statement of
Shays, Hon. Christopher, a Representative in Congress from the State
of Connecticut, prepared statement of
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