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Debbie Dingell: “This is an amendment which is to deal with a very important injustice done to marines by the Department of the Navy...…”

On the recordMay 27, 2010
This is an amendment which is to deal with a very important injustice done to marines by the Department of the Navy... people in the Marine Corps are being hurt, injured, poisoned, given cancer and other things by the way the Department of the Navy has run the posts and has provided contaminated water to the members of the Marine Corps and to their families. This will at least begin the process of getting information to these marines about what has happened and why it is that they are suffering this way, and see to it that we are taking a step forward to have the Marine Corps deliver some of the information that they're supposed to deliver under agreement. I urge my colleagues to vote for the amendment...
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Debbie Dingell
Democratic · Michigan
Source
govinfo.gov
May 27, 2010

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Dingell addresses the issue of water contamination affecting Marines at Camp Lejeune.

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