COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT ONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION FEBRUARY 24, 1998 Serial No. 105-130 Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight 49-511 CC U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 ISBN 0-16-057235-5 COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM AND OVERSIGHT DAN BURTON, Indiana, Chairman BENJAMIN A. GILMAN, New York MARSHALL "MARK" SANFORD, South JOHN E. SUNUNU, New Hampshire MICHAEL PAPPAS, New Jersey VINCE SNOWBARGER, Kansas BOB BARR, Georgia DAN MILLER, Florida HENRY A. WAXMAN, California ROBERT E. WISE, JR., West Virginia GARY A. CONDIT, California CAROLYN B. MALONEY, New York ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, Washington, DC CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, Maryland DENNIS J. KUCINICH, Ohio ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH, Illinois JOHN F. TIERNEY, Massachusetts THOMAS H. ALLEN, Maine HAROLD E. FORD, JR., Tennessee BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont (Independent) KF27 1998.g CONTENTS 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- Clauw, Daniel, M.D., chief of rheumatology, Georgetown University Feussner, John, M.D., Chief Research and Development Officer, Depart- Haley, Robert, M.D., director, Epidemiology and Scientific Graphics Lab- oratory, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, prepared Heivilin, Donna, Ph.D., Director, Planning and Reporting, General Ac- 149 (III) |