 Hey everybody, I'm Shane Learman with DAV's National Legislative Team in Washington, D.C. And boy, we've got some great news. Just recently the House of Representatives voted to pass HR 299, which is the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2019. What this bill will do is it will concede Agent Orange Exposure to the men and women who served in the waters offshore Vietnam. So this is a great piece of legislation and we would like to thank Chairman Takano and ranking member Dr. Phil Rowe for all of their hard work and bipartisan leadership in getting this through the House of Representatives. We'd also like to thank each of you, our DAV members, supporters and benefit protection team leaders for using DAV's Commander's Action Network to contact your members of Congress to get them to support and vote for HR 299. So while it's exciting that we got to this point, we're not done yet because next the bill is going to go into the U.S. Senate. So the Veterans Affairs Committee for the Senate will take up the bill in the next few weeks in the upcoming months and they will have to vote to approve and get it to the floor in order for it to pass. So again, we're going to need your help. That's right. We're going to need you to once again contact your senators, get actively involved and get engaged, keep the conversation going about why this piece of legislation, Blue Water Navy Vietnam's Veteran Act, is so important and why it's going to provide benefits to those who served and were exposed to Agent Orange. So please get actively involved and if you want to follow this and all of our other legislative issues, join to become a member of DAV's Commander's Action Network or can. Click for the link attached to the video and you can help us keep the promise to the men and women who served.