[CPEO-MEF] Camp Lejeune TCE amendment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Senate continues authorization bill debate

By Rick Maze
Navy Times
June 19, 2006


The count is 28 amendments down and at least 114 to go as the Senate 
enters its second week of debate on the 2007 defense authorization bill.

...

Also coming is debate about whether the Defense Department owes any 
special benefits to Marines and their family members who were assigned 
to Camp Lejeune, N.C., from 1980 to 1985, a period when high levels of 
toxic substances were found in contaminated wells. Sen. Elizabeth Dole, 
R-N.C., is sponsoring an amendment that would provide veterans’ health 
care benefits to children whose mothers were exposed while pregnant to 
the water contaminated with a solvent used for industrial degreasing.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1879970.php

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