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House Committee on Foreign Affairs

Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment
Eni F.H. Faleomavaega (D-AS), Chairman

Our Forgotten Responsibility:
What Can We Do To Help Victims of Agent Orange?

Thursday, May 15, 2008
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room 2172
Rayburn House Office Building

United States House of Representatives
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment
Eni F.H. Faleomavaega (D-AS), Chairman

You are respectfully requested to attend the following OPEN hearing of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment, to be held in Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office Building .

DATE: Thursday, May 15, 2008
TIME: 10:00 AM
SUBJECT: Our Forgotten Responsibility: What Can We Do To Help Victims of Agent Orange?
WITNESSES: Panel I
  The Honorable Scot Marciel (testimony)
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
U.S. Department of State
  Panel II
 

Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong, M.D. (testimony and speech at the hearing)
Director General, Ngoc Tam Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Former Vice Speaker of the Vietnam National Assembly
(Member of The U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin)

Ms. Catharin Dalpino
Building trust in US-Vietnam relations--The issue of Agent Orange
Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies
Asian Studies Program
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Affairs
Georgetown University
(Director of the Aspen Institute Project on Agent Orange)

Vaughan C. Turekian, Ph.D. (testimony and appendices)
Chief International Officer
American Association for the Advancement of Science
(Member of The U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin)

Mr. Rick Weidman (testimony)
Executive Director for Policy & Government Affairs
Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA)

Jeanne Mirer, J.D. (testimony)
Secretary General
International Association of Democratic Lawyers

NOTE: Witnesses may be added.

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