We thank Congresswoman Ann Kuster for her leadership on this bill.

I think it may be something that we can look into in a bi-partisan way of whatever needs to be done to keep this research moving forward.

Thank you very much, Chairman Coffman, and Chairman Abraham, and Ranking Member Titus, for holding this hearing on Gulf War veterans.

in the 25 years since the end of the Gulf War, many veterans have suffered from symptoms that are not readily identifiable or well understood, and still struggle to receive compensation for their illness.

I want to protect future troops. I want to know what is happening.

And I do want to acknowledge the improvement that is being made, and, you know, we want to work with you to make sure that we are serving our veterans.

Well, it appears to me that this is deja vu all over again. We are revisiting where we were with the Vietnam veterans.

I am very concerned about a fixed date of December 31st, 2016.

I guess it seems to me the short-term solution is--and we have been talking up here about a bipartisan letter urgency the secretary to move toward this single DBQ.

I am concerned about this decision of IOM to recommend not researching it and it sounds as though the panel might have been skewed toward, this is all in your head, which is not where we are coming from.

I am concerned that veterans who may have been improperly denied compensation and health care by the VA will not have a chance to submit a claim after this point.