i'm very proud to be here to introduce the janey ensminger act.ose who were affected by the toxic drinking water at camp lejeune. >> the janey ensminger act requires the department of veterans affairs to provide health care to the veterans and their families who served at camp lejeune during the period of water contamination. >> this will make it easier for marines and their families to receive disability compensation for their illness. >> it was suggested last week that the va isn't equipped to do this. until you realize that we're already doing it, and it's call the family members of agent orange. >> jerry, to you and your family, thank you for the years of perseverance that you have shown in getting us to where we are today. >> i am now pleased to introduce jerry ensminger. jerry's been more relentless, more powerful than any paid lobbyist could ever be. >> good afternoon. i am the father of janey ensminger, the 9-year-old little girl for whom this bill's named. i can only surmise that had this conduct been demonstrated by a private industry, a

partmiller, let's run the where you are introducing janey ensminger act. where does the name "ensminger" come from? >> germany. the most you'll find anywhere in the united states are pennsylvania. >> what do people do with that name? do they give you a nickname to make it easy on them? >> no, because it is not really that hard. people make it harder than it is. if you spell it the way you sound it out, it is very easy. >> here is the testimony. >> i am the father of the nine year old little girl. i can only surmise that had this conduct been demonstrated by a private industry and not the department of the fed's entity, and they would have most certainly found themselves in a federal court room long ago. it is my hope that someday soon all of us will finally be allowed to achieve so much justice. may god bless janey and you for bestowing this honor upon us. ♪ >> i have in my hand hr742, may 5, 2011. that was the act that was introduced. from the u.s. senate, i have the other. that was february of 2011. what has happened to this legislation? >> hr1742, on th

janey? i dropped my plate right there. it was like god was saying to me, here is a glimmer of hope that you will find your answer. >> jerry ensminger, what are you talking about there? >> when any family has parents that have a child, especially a child that is diagnosed with a long term, catastrophic illness, without exception, because i have talked to so many other families when janey was sick, when you have a chance to sit down after the shock of the diagnosis wears off, there is that nagging question, why? no exception. and i looked into her mother's family history, my family history, and no other child ever been diagnosed with cancer. >> and what year was it that she got the cancer, and when did she die? >> she was diagnosed in 1983 and died in 1985, and that revelation on the news did not happen until 1997, three years after i had retired out of the marine corps, and all of those years, i had had that nagging question, and when i heard that, i was going into the living room with a plate of spaghetti, and the reporter on the television set what they said right there in that clip, and i dropped my plate of spaghetti right there