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C-SPAN broadcast the hearing live, shown here Health Subcommittee Ranking Democratic member Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) questioning a panel.

Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Terry Everett (R-AL), right, questions witnesses while Health Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL), who presided at the hearing, studies his notes.  Between the two chairmen is Health Subcommittee Counsel Ralph Ibson.

C. Ross Anthony, center, Director of the RAND Center for Military Health Policy Research, testifies on his organization's research.  He was joined at the first panel by Dr. Beatrice Alexandra Golomb, a consultant with RAND, and Dr. Joseph S. Cassells, Project Director, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.

The second panel featured spokesmen for government agencies.  Testifying were, from left, Mark Brown, Director of the VA's Environmental Agents Service; Bernard D. Rostker, Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Gulf War Illnesses, Department of Defense; Dr. Frances Murphy, the VA's Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Health; and Dr. Sue Bailey, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Department of Defense.

Matthew L. Puglisi, Director of Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation for The American Legion, answers a question while Paul Sullivan, Executive Director, National Gulf War Resource Center, and Denise Nichols, Vice-Chair, National Vietnam and Gulf War Veterans Coalition listen.

Rep. Steve Buyer (R-IN), foreground, of the Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee spoke with special authority as a veteran of the Persian Gulf War.

Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage (R-ID) of the Health Subcommittee pursues a point with one of the panels.