COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM AND OVERSIGHT
DAN BURTON, Indiana, Chairman
BENJAMIN A. GILMAN, New York
J. DENNIS HASTERT, Illinois
CONSTANCE A. MORELLA, Maryland
CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, Connecticut
STEVEN SCHIFF, New Mexico
CHRISTOPHER COX, California
ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, Florida
JOHN M. MCHUGH, New York
STEPHEN HORN, California
JOHN L. MICA, Florida
THOMAS M. DAVIS, Virginia
DAVID M. MCINTOSH, Indiana
MARK E. SOUDER, Indiana
JOE SCARBOROUGH, Florida
JOHN B. SHADEGG, Arizona
STEVEN C. LATOURETTE, Ohio
MARSHALL "MARK" SANFORD, South
Carolina
JOHN E. SUNUNU, New Hampshire
PETE SESSIONS, Texas
MICHAEL PAPPAS, New Jersey
BOB BARR, Georgia
DAN MILLER, Florida
HENRY A. WAXMAN, California
TOM LANTOS, California
ROBERT E. WISE, JR., West Virginia
MAJOR R. OWENS, New York
EDOLPHUS TOWNS, New York
PAUL E. KANJORSKI, Pennsylvania
GARY A. CONDIT, California
CAROLYN B. MALONEY, New York
THOMAS M. BARRETT, Wisconsin
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, Washington,
CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania
ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, Maryland
DENNIS J. KUCINICH, Ohio
ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH, Illinois
DANNY K. DAVIS, Illinois
JOHN F. TIERNEY, Massachusetts
JIM TURNER, Texas
THOMAS H. ALLEN, Maine HAROLD E. FORD, JR., Tennessee
BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont (Independent)
Hearing held on February 24, 1998
Statement of:
Feussner, John, M.D., Chief Research and Development Officer, Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs, accompanied by Timothy Gerrity, Special
Assistant to the Chief Research and Development Officer; Anna John-
son-Winegar, Director, Environmental and Life Sciences, Department
of Defense; Drue H. Barrett, Ph.D., Division of Environmental Hazards
and Health Effects, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Public Health Service; and
Sheila Newton, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences,
Department of Health and Human Services
Heivilin, Donna, Ph.D., Director, Planning and Reporting, General Ac-
counting Office, accompanied by Kwai-Cheung Chan, Director, Special
Studies and Evaluation, General Accounting Office, and Sushil
Sharma, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Special Studies and Evaluation,
General Accounting Office; Robert Haley, M.D., director, Epidemiology
and Scientific Graphics Laboratory, University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center; Daniel Clauw, M.D., chief of rheumatology, George-
town University School of Medicine; and William Reeves, M.D., Branch
Chief, Viral Exanthems, Center for Disease Control and Prevention ......
Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by:
Barrett, Drue H., Ph.D., Division of Environmental Hazards and Health
Effects, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, U.S. Public Health Service, prepared state-
ment of......
Clauw, Daniel, M.D., chief of rheumatology, Georgetown University
School of Medicine, prepared statement of
Feussner, John, M.D., Chief Research and Development Officer, Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs:
Heivilin, Donna, Ph.D., Director, Planning and Reporting, General Ac-
counting Office, prepared statement of..........
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