Lawmakers - Agent Orange
Lawmakers - Agent Orange
Lawmakers - Agent Orange 12/15/1983
Lawmakers - Agent Orange
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Paul Duke, Linda Wertheimer and Cokie Roberts - on program: Senator Jennings Randolph, Congressional Pages, report on Vietnam Veteran lobbying for compensation after exposure to Agent Orange.
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Gary Thomas, Agent Orange veteran says, You know, when the American public finally learns the story of Agent Orange, it s going to put Watergate to shame.
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Air-to-Air of plane spraying Agent Orange over jungle area.
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Vietnam veteran. CU of skin lesions. The veteran v.o. describes his problems with skin, the developmental defects of his two stillborn children, and patterns of sudden weight gain and loss.
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DO NOT USE CU Washington Post headline dated June 1979 on hearings in Congress about Agent Orange. DUKE v.o.-in 1979 veterans persuaded Congress to investigate Agent Orange.
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Senator Alan Simpson (R - Wyoming) It has already taken us more than 10 years to get to this point where we are in 1981. Veterans who are experiencing health difficulties do not have the time to wait another 10 years for answers to the medical problems which they are experiencing."
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Senator Alan Simpson (R - Wyoming). Nearly 18 months ago, this committee held a hearing on issues related to exposure to agent orange, discussion at that time centered on problems of design and the agent orange epidemiological study. Because today the study is not completed and the answers are not in, there s a great temptation I think to say that nothing has been accomplished, that veterans who may have been exposed to Agent Orange are being ignored. That is not true.
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Exterior of Veterans Administration building.
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Pan down a typewritten page listing studies on Agent Orange.
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Representative Tom Daschle (D - South Dakota) There will never be a definitive answer. The scientific community will always have differences of opinion, especially with regard to all the different diseases.
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Senator Alan Simpson (R - Wyoming) says, Why should we go ahead with a legislative solution when we have 60 studies presently pending, at a cost to this government of 150 million bucks.
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DO NOT USE Clip of "Frontline" special on Vietnam Memorial, veterans testifying to a veterans administration. One Veteran asks how long he should have to wait until the VA will help him. VA official says that the V.A. can't do anything until Congress votes to fund a project.
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M/S of veteran unloading picket signs from trunk of his car. (Demonstration, protest) Veterans picketing the Capitol. Representative Tom Daschle (D - South Dakota) speaking the veterans. People on the veteran s committees in both the House and the Senate need to realize how important an issue this is to Vietnam veterans. They need to recognize the obstacles that are still there will be removed. And there is no one better to do that job than you.
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Veteran lobbyists for their own cause. Veterans in office of Representative John Hammerschmidt (R - Arkansas). Gary Thomas, Agent Orange veteran, describing his agent orange related problems.
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Graphic Senate Resolution to provide compensation for Agent Orange victims.
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Representative Tom Daschle (D - South Dakota) says, They (the White House) have provided an avalanche of opposition. Every conceivable stop that could be pulled had been pulled to make sure this legislation doesn t get anywhere. Senator Alan Simpson (R - Wyoming) says, I don t know why Tom chooses to do that, but if he wants to make a partisan issue of it I think that s a wretched excess and would tell that to anybody. I haven t received any kind of comment from the White House.
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Gary Thomas, Agent Orange veteran, Actually they have two choices. To let it ride. Vote on it now and pass the bill and treat the men and compensate them. The second choice they have is to wait until the evidence is in; the men are dead and then stand before the American public and say We let an army die.
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Paul Duke says the Agent Orange compensation on the Congressional agenda for 1984.