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nitpicker

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Wed Mar 6, 2019, 07:06 AM Mar 2019

Wenstrup Burn Pit Legislation Passes House

https://wenstrup.house.gov/updates/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=400659

Wenstrup Burn Pit Legislation Passes House

Washington, March 5, 2019

Contact: Ann Tumolo(202-225-3164)

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Burn Pit Registry Enhancement Act passed the House of Representatives. Congressman Brad Wenstrup (OH-02) introduced the bipartisan legislation earlier this month with a fellow doctor, Congressman Raul Ruiz (D-CA). The Burn Pit Registry Enhancement Act would strengthen and enhance the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) registry of service members and veterans who were exposed to toxic chemicals and fumes from open-air burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Burn Pit Registry Enhancement Act, H.R. 1381:
•Ensures the VA burn pit registry may be updated with the cause of death of a registered veteran;
•Allows a designated individual or immediate family member to report the cause of death of a registered veteran;
•Provides a process by which a registered veteran may make a designation regarding who is to make the report to the registry on their behalf.
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Wenstrup Burn Pit Legislation Passes House (Original Post) nitpicker Mar 2019 OP
Link to bill text nitpicker Mar 2019 #1
Burn pits are going to be this generation's Agent Orange. Haggis for Breakfast Mar 2019 #2

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
2. Burn pits are going to be this generation's Agent Orange.
Fri Mar 8, 2019, 01:44 AM
Mar 2019

Thank god, it's not going to take 30 years to recognize the after affects of this toxic poisonous stuff.

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