SENATE BILL REPORT
SJM 8003
BYSenators Conner, Metcalf, Anderson, Pullen, Hansen and Garrett
Memorial to discover location of MIAs.
Senate Committee on Governmental Operations
Senate Hearing Date(s):February 25, 1987
Majority Report: Do pass.
Signed by Senators Halsan, Chairman; Garrett, Vice Chairman; DeJarnatt, McCaslin, Talmadge, Zimmerman.
Senate Staff:Eugene Green (786-7405); Sam Thompson (786-7754)
March 5, 1987
AS PASSED SENATE, MARCH 4, 1987
BACKGROUND:
There are still 2,426 soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, one Coast Guardsman, and 42 civilians still unaccounted for from the Vietnam War. Sixty-one of the missing are from the State of Washington. The issue of servicemen and women missing in Indochina is one that all veterans agree must be resolved.
SUMMARY:
Your memorialists respectfully pray that the Congress of the United States and the Administration develop a program to uncover where servicemen and women are being held in Indochina, and to bring these Americans home.
Fiscal Note: none requested
Senate Committee - Testified: Dolores Alfond, Ann Holland, Marsha L. Welch, Jerri L. Gowdy, Dorothy Brown, John M. Libby, Sr., Veterans of Foreign Wars, Department of Washington; Bill Anderson, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Department of Washington; Michael W. Booth, National Vietnam Veterans Coalition; Geraldine Roselli, R.A.N.S.O.M.; Carl Rice, R.A.N.S.O.M.; Carol Gedevian, People for Live P.O.W.; Susan Allen, People for Live P.O.W.