But we do know from the studies, those nine studies I referred to and that the IOM considered rigorous enough for us to give weight for them, six of the studies were strong and statistically significant in making the tie between herbicide exposure and ischemic heart disease.
Shinseki cites studies linking herbicide exposure to health issues in Vietnam veterans.
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This is not a once and done, or whenever we have a crisis, we do. This is an ongoing set of looks at ourselves.
Any allegation, any adverse incident like this makes me--makes me mad as hell.
In this year's budget, if we were to look back to 2009 and come forward through our budgets, women veterans' programs have been increased by 134 percent.
Somehow other terms make it sound like it is a condition. This is a crime and we ought to look at it that way.