We sometimes have an uncomfortable duty to ask the hard questions.
What presumption is about is to say you, soldier, put your life on the line. We are going to give you the benefit of the doubt.
I do not know of any extensive study that actually has looked at Vietnam veterans as a whole.
Well, with respect to funding, as you know, if a disability is service-connected, it will be funded.
I do not think that was an accident. I think originally, especially in the years after the war, the attitude was the less we know, the bette...
I take your point. I am on a very short period of time here.
I would like to get an understanding of your motivations moving toward your decision based on the 2008 report in this area.
So you are basically just taking the medical condition at the time and assigning a disability rating to it?
In response to a question from Senator Webb with respect to the extent to which common risk factors for developing IHD may have attributed t...
If the American people lose faith in the integrity of our disability benefits system, veterans and their families will be the ones that will...
There is nothing wrong with trying to make laws better.
We must maintain the integrity of our compensation system, even given these unknowns.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I believe Mr. Samet, did you have a follow-on to that? You had your hand up.
Well, Secretary Shinseki made a comment toward the end of his testimony; he had actually made a similar comment when I met with him.
So we cannot say a Vietnam veteran is 1.4 to 2.8 more times likely to come down with ischemic heart disease than a non-veteran?
I think the biggest problem that we face which has been referred to by many of the panelists is the fact that we really do not--frequently d...
Those studies [examined] the relationship of dioxin and IHD mortality.
Was this actual new scientific studies or was this as a result of further evaluation of studies that had already been done?
