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16 quotes by Christopher Shays

Christopher Hunter "Chris" Shays (born October 18, 1945) is an American politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives and represented the 4th District of Connecticut. He is a member of the Republican Party. Shays was the only Republican congressman from New England elected to the 110th United States Congress in the 2006 midterm elections. His loss to Jim Himes in the 2008 election made New England's House delegation...
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But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

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I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.

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First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.

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What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical... →

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Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.

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I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.

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Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept... →

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But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war.

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The bottom line to this is, there are few doctors who have any expertise in chemical exposure.

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We knew shortly after the war that our troops were becoming ill.

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First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off... →

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I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of... →

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I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up... →

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