legislation: 110-hr-6798
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| 110-hr-6798 | 110 | hr | 6798 | To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a presumption of service connection for certain cancers occurring in veterans who served in the Republic of Vietnam and were exposed to certain herbicide agents, and for other purposes. | Armed Forces and National Security | 2008-08-01 | 2008-08-01 | Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. | House | Rep. Kagen, Steve [D-WI-8] | WI | D | K000365 | 10 | Presumes to be service-connected, and therefore compensable through veterans' disability compensation, cancers of any tissues through the opening of the gastrointestinal tract to the end, becoming manifest to a degree of disability of 10% or more. | 2021-04-20T15:25:43Z |