Response from Congressman Rick Larsen

I just received a response from Congressman Rick Larsen:
Thanks for the heads up. I'll have my staff look at it. I think I have cosponsored in the past. R

Reply from Congressman Mark Takai Office

I received a reply from Congressman Mark Takai Office
Mike Yates, mahalo for your note. We will pass it on to the congressman. —Esme for Team Takai

Response from David Jolly

I received a response from David Jolly
Thanks Mike. As you may know, I cosponsored this legislation last Congress and look forward to cosponsoring it again. It is my hope as well that the legislation will receive a vote on the House floor sometime this Congress. Thanks for reaching out.

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Reply received from Congressman Scott Peters

We appreciate you reaching out. As you may have seen, Scott cosponsored this bill during the last session of Congress and has agreed to cosponsor the new version as it is reintroduced. You can find more information about his work for veterans here:http://scottpeters.house.gov/issues/veterans-issues. Please reach out to his office at 202-225-0508 if you would like to discuss it further. ~ Staff.

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Reply received from Congressman John Carney

Mr. Yates,

Thanks for letting me know your feelings on the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act. As you may know, I cosponsored this legislation last Congress. I will make sure to take another look at it when it is reintroduced this year.

Best,
John

Gibson's Dear Colleague Letter

I was given permissions to post these:

I wanted to show everyone that posting to random site does get the word out. I have post on over 50 different random FB pages and I must get at least 4 of these messages a day. I also get them from the posting I do on the Representatives page.

Received another reply: U.S. Rep. Tony Cárdenas I believe you checked in with me on this last year Mike. I will take a look at the bill when Rep. Gibson files it this year!

Congress Person Response

I received another response:

Hi Mike, thank you for contacting Kyrsten. During the 113th Congress (2013-2014), Kyrsten cosponsored the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act. She works closely with Congressman Gibson, and actually introduced a bill with him today on another issue.

While Congressman Gibson has not yet re-introduced the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act for the 114th Congress (2015-2016), we will certainly keep an eye on this issue and pass your thoughts on to Kyrsten.

If you have any additional questions or comments, please email Kyrsten at https://sinema.house.gov/email-me. Thank you for reaching out. – Staff

Write Your Rep - U.S. Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema

sinema.house.gov

As you can see i am getting some responses after I have contacted them. Can you image what would happen if everyone on this list and on the Blue Water Navy page would contact them. It only takes a few minutes to contact them. We can't just sit around hoping someone else does it. WE ALL NEED TO DO IT and we need Facebook friends, our relatives, our real life friends, and other we talk to to contact Congress so this can pass.

I have received a response from Rep. Mike Bost: 
Thank you, Mike. I will look into it.

Over the weekend I contacted the Representatives that are on the House Veterans Affairs Committee and I received the following back. I am somewhat worried that he is still referring to it as HR543. This is from Congreeman Beto O'Rourke (D-TX)

Thank you for writing to me regarding the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act (H.R. 543). I am a cosponsor of this legislation.

Under current law, the Veterans Administration (VA) recognizes illnesses and exposure to Agent Orange as presumptive conditions for the purpose of obtaining VA disability benefits. Unfortunately, this presumption only covers veterans who had “boots on the ground” in Vietnam. This unfairly leaves out Navy Vietnam veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange during service off the coast of Vietnam. H.R. 543 would correct this situation and I am proud to support it.

Military-Veterans Advocacy, Inc.

8 mins · 

Congressman Chris Gibson ®-NY) has agreed to re-introduce the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act early in this Congress. He would like to do so with at least 100 original co-sponsors. We have collected around 22 so far, many in response to letters and e-mails from supporters. We want to ensure the Members of Congress that there is still support out there for this bill. Please take the time, if you have not already done so, to contact the Washington DC office of your Member of Congress to ask him or her to contact Congressman Gibson’s office and agree to be an original co-sponsor. This is not a Democrat or Republican issue. The bill has had bi-partisan support and will continue to enjoy this support. If you have the time, please contact the office of Congressman Jeff Miller (R-FL) and Corrine Brown (D-FL) the Chair and Ranking Member of the House Veterans Committee and ask them to move the bill to the floor once it is introduced. Let’s get this bill passed in 2015.

House Veterans Affairs Committee

Republicans

Jeff Miller (FL), Chairman

Doug Lamborn (CO)

Gus M. Bilirakis (FL), Vice Chairman

David P. Roe (TN)

Dan Benishek (MI)

Tim Huelskamp (KS)

Mike Coffman (CO)

Brad Wenstrup (OH)

Jackie Walorski (IN)

Ralph Abraham (LA)

Lee Zeldin (NY)

Ryan Costello (PA)

Amata Radewagen (AS)

Mike Bost (IL)

Democrats

Corrine Brown ( FL)

Mark Takano (CA)

Julia Brownley (CA)

Dina Titus (NV)

Raul Ruiz (CA)

Ann McLane Kuster (CA)

Beto O'Rourke (TX)

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