Tillis: Secretary Mabus Out Of Step On Camp Lejeune Water Contamination

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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) spoke at a Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee hearing on the impact of exposure to toxic chemicals on veterans. Senator Tillis took Secretary of the Navy Ray Maybus to task for questionable comments he recently made asserting there was no correlation between living at Camp Lejeune and the contraction of diseases after being exposed to toxic water contamination, despite the consensus of government scientists that there was.

"I want this Camp Lejeune problem solved, and I think Secretary Mabus should be ashamed for the statement he made this week because he's taking the eye off the ball of solving this problem," said Senator Tillis.

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"If we have to serve more veterans, we have to serve more veterans," said Senator Tillis. "If we need a backlog to be created because there are people with legitimate claims, create the backlog, and then we'll figure out the operation to draw down the backlog. But let's not have policy driven by optics."

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