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Irrespective of the method used in preparing estimates of these losses, all investigators agree that the losses are tremendous. A few examples to illustrate this destructiveness have been taken from a report of hearings before a Congressional committee (I). 

Committee on Resources, Land Use and Energy, State of California Assembly Congressional Research Division, Library of Congress Dames and Moore EBASCO Services Electric Power Research Institute... 

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Lane, J. 2002. Sworn testimony, Congressional Field Hearing, House Committee on Government Reform, Abilene, Kansas. 

When the first Moss Bill was filed, its provisions were studied by the American Chemical Society Committee on Economic Status and the Committee on Patent Matters and Related Legislation. One concern was whether an official ACS position on the bill should be presented to the governing congressional committee. The ACS bodies also felt that consideration should be given to the active involvement of ACS itself in developing a program for encouraging compensation to employed inventors. It soon became apparent to the members of the two ACS Committees that the issue was more complex than appeared, and a joint subcommittee was appointed to study the entire question in depth. This subcommittee, under my chairmanship, has been active since 1972, and it made a report to its parent committees in the fall of 1974 with recommendations for future action. 

Turner, Margaret A. 2003. Strengths and Weaknesses ofthe Housing Voucher Program. Congressional Testimony prepared for the Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, U.S. House of Representatives, June 17, 2003. Available at www.urban.org/url.cfm lD=900635. 

Twenty-three people are killed in a Texas cafeteria by George Hennard, Jr., who then kills himself. A woman named Suzanna Gratia later tells a congressional committee that she probably could have shot Hennard with her own gun if the law had allowed her to bring it into the building. 

Davis, Joseph A. 1985. Senate Committee Approved Superfund Bill. Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report (March 2) 409-12. 

In the early 1980 s, Gough directed OTA s congressionally mandated oversight of Executive Branch studies of cancer in veterans of atom bomb tests and of the health of Vietnam veterans. He chaired a Department of Veterans Affairs advisory committee (1987-90) about the possible health effects of herbicides used in Vietnam and the Department of Health and Human Services committee (1990-95) that advises the United States Air Force study of the health of Air Force personnel who sprayed Agent Orange in Vietnam. In September 2000, he accepted reappointment to the DHHS committee. In 1995, he served on the Environmental Protection Agency s Science Advisory Board committee that evaluated EPA s dioxin reassessment. 

Congress had already declared that veterans who suffered from any of four diseases—chloracne, porphyria cutanea tarda, soft-tissue sarcoma, or non-Hodgkin s leukemia—were entitled to compensation. The IOM committee essentially endorsed the congressional decisions when it concluded that there was sufficient evidence for associations between herbicides and those four diseases. 

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Congressional Testimony. Statement of Asa Hutchinson, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration before the House Committee on Appropriations. December 11, 2001. chttp // www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubsAestimony.htm>. 

Data from biomonitoring studies are becoming widely available and are increasingly used to understand the presence of chemicals in the human body and their effects on human health. At the same time, scientists, public-health officials, and the public have questions about the quality and scope of the available data, what the data tell us about potential risks to human health, and how future research can address these questions. Responding to a congressional request, the National Research Council established the Committee on Human Biomonitoring for Environmental Toxicants to review current practices in and recommend ways to improve the interpretation and uses of human biomonitoring for environmental toxicants. 

Source Congressional Testimony. Statement by Terrance Woodworth before the Committee on Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families, May 16, 2000. Available online at http.Y/www. usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/cngrtest/ct051600.htm. 

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