He said that the US government needed to make greater efforts to compensate for the AO/dioxin disaster they had caused in Viet Nam.  Therefore, it had been necessary to propose a suitable and specific law to promote AO victims' support programmes.

Senator Filter, formerly Chairman of the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, played a key role in presenting the bill, HR 2634 (Victims of Agent Orange Relief Act of 2011), to the House of Representatives in July 2011.  The bill was designed to instruct the US Secretary of State to provide assistance for certain Vietnamese individuals affected by exposure to Agent Orange, and the US Secretary of Veterans' Affairs to enhance the availability of medical care for descendants of veterans of the Viet Nam War.  The Senator said he hoped that the US government would pass the bill.  

From Pioneer Newspaper