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H.R. 6798

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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.
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Committee
Latest Action · August 1, 2008
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Congress
110th (2007–2009)
Introduced
August 1, 2008
Cosponsors (10)
8D 2R
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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.

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