[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 127 (Thursday, October 12, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1072]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
GULF WAR ILLNESSES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings to examine Gulf War 
illnesses, focusing on possible associations between agents to which 
Gulf War veterans may have been exposed and their potential for adverse 
health effects, after receiving testimony from Bernard D. Rostker, 
Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness; John R. 
Feussner, Chief Research and Development Officer, Veterans Health 
Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs; Drue H. Barrett, Chief 
of the Veterans' Health Activity Working Group, Division of 
Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, National Center for 
Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Captain Julia Dyckman, United 
States Navy Reserve (Retired); Robert G. Claypool, Military and 
Veterans Health Coordinating Boards, Washington, D.C.; Harold C. Sox, 
Jr., Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire; Robert 
W. Haley, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas; and 
Ross Perot, Perot Systems Corporation, Dallas, Texas.