75th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2009 Regular Session
 
 
                            Enrolled
 
                     Senate Joint Memorial 3
 
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the
  President of the Senate in conformance with presession filing
  rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part
  of the President (at the request of Governor Theodore R.
  Kulongoski for Department of Veterans' Affairs)
 
 
To the President of the United States and the Senate and the
  House of Representatives of the United States of America, in
  Congress assembled:
  We, your memorialists, the Seventy-fifth Legislative Assembly
of the State of Oregon, in legislative session assembled,
respectfully represent as follows:
  Whereas veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer
high rates of traumatic brain injuries and other debilitating
injuries, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and other mental
health conditions; and
  Whereas all veterans of this nation's Armed Forces deserve the
best health care and services this country can offer; and
  Whereas there is a backlog of claims in the United States
Department of Veterans Affairs and it can take months for
veterans to receive needed medical treatment; and
  Whereas the families of veterans who served in Iraq and
Afghanistan also sacrificed for this nation as they waited
anxiously for their loved ones to return; now, therefore,
 
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
 
  (1) That the Seventy-fifth Legislative Assembly urges the
Congress of the United States to enact legislation that increases
funding levels for the United States Department of Veterans
Affairs and the Veterans Health Administration to meet honorably
discharged veterans' health care requirements and to enact
legislation that provides universal health care access for all
honorably discharged veterans and their families.
  (2) A copy of this memorial shall be sent to the President of
the United States, to the Senate Majority Leader, to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives and to each member of the Oregon
Congressional Delegation.
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                                 Adopted by Senate March 3, 2009
 
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                                       Secretary of Senate
 
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                                       President of Senate
 
 
                                 Adopted by House April 9, 2009
 
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                                        Speaker of House
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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