Please contact your Senator in support of S. 422 Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2017

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Please contact your Senator in support of S. 422 Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2017

Take Action!http://capwiz.com/vva/issues/alert/?alertid=77020631&queueid=11491390201

Vietnam Veterans of America - Legislative Alert
May 26, 2017
For over a decade, Vietnam Veterans of America has sought legislation to restore presumptive Agent Orange exposure status to members of the Armed Forces, who served in the territorial waters of Vietnam,
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has introduced companion bill S.422, in the Senate. When enacted into law this legislation would reverse the Department of Veterans Affairs decision preventing “Blue Water Navy” veterans from claiming presumptive status for the diseases associated with Agent Orange exposure.
Presumption of service connection exists for Vietnam veterans who served in country, on land and inland waterways. Enactment of S.422 will bring a modicum of justice to several thousand Navy personnel who have been denied service connection by the VA since 2002. They no longer will have to prove direct exposure to Agent Orange, and they will receive expedited consideration for VA benefits if they are afflicted with any of the health conditions associated with exposure to this defoliant.
VVA strongly supports S.422 and will work with Congress to ensure passage of this bi-partisan legislation to restore equity to all Vietnam Veterans that were exposed to Agent Orange.
Cosponsorhttp://filemanager.capwiz.com/filemanager/file-mgr/vva/1Cosponsors_S.422_Blue_Water_Navy_Vietnam_Veterans_Act_of_2017.pdf
Noncosponsorhttp://filemanager.capwiz.com/filemanager/file-mgr/vva/1Noncoponsors_S.422_Blue_Water_Navy_Vietnam_Veterans_Act_of_2017.pdf
VVA urges you to take action now! enter your Zip Code, and send the prepared letters requesting your Senator to cosponsor S.422, the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2017 and also thanking your Senator for cosponsoring the bill.

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Vietnam Veterans of America
October 6, 2017
Legislative Update

Save the Date: October 12, 2017

The next call in day on the hill supporting passage of H.R. 299 and S.422, the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act 2017, is October 12 at 9:00 am.

304 House members have signed on to H.R. 299 and 43 Senators have signed on to the companion bill, S.422. If, your member has not signed on to these bills, please make the call on October 12 requesting they join their colleagues in support of our Navy Vietnam Veterans.

Noncosponsors H.R. 299 http://filemanager.capwiz.com/filemanager/file-mgr/vva/1Sept292017HR299noncosponsors.pdf
Noncosponsors S.422 http://filemanager.capwiz.com/filemanager/file-mgr/vva/2Sept18Noncoponsors_S.422_Blue_Water_Navy_Vietnam_Veterans_Act_of_2017.pdf
CallinScript for H.R. 299/S.422 http://filemanager.capwiz.com/filemanager/file-mgr/vva/1CallinscriptH.R.299andS.422BlueWaterNavyVietnamVetsAct.pdf

We need your voices to get these bills out of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs Committees and to the floor of both chambers for passage.

Thank you for your support.

VVA Government Relations Department

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Blue Water Navy bill goes before full HVAC committee for markup

Vietnam Veterans of America

Legislative Update

November 1, 2017

House Veterans Affairs Committee votes on passage of H.R. 299, the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2017

Thanks to your grassroots advocacy on November 2, 2017, at 10:00 am H.R.299, the Blue Water Navy Veteran Act of 2017, will be marked up by the House Veterans Affairs full committee. If, the full committee approves the bill, it will then proceed to the House where the bill will be placed on the Calendar for a schedule floor vote.

The House bill has 317 Cosponsor

https://veterans.house.gov/news/documen ... entID=1928

https://veterans.house.gov/uploadedfile ... vy_act.pdf

Great work everyone!

VVA Government Relations Department