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Improving Access to Physicians in Medically Underserved Areas

Floor Speech

Date: Nov. 17, 2004
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care Federal, State and Local Relations

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Mr. MORAN of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding me time.

I am here only once again in a series, it seems like, of a number of years in which I have been on the floor to support the provisions contained in this legislation. I commend the chairman and the ranking member in the Committee on the Judiciary for their work in getting this resolved this year.

The J-1 visa program expired on May 31 of this year. It is a program that is so important to many areas of the country. Once again, I am here to express my support for the legislation and indicate that in many places across rural America and the core of our cities, absent this program, Americans will not be served with a physician. It is important. It needs to be passed. I thank the chairman for his leadership in seeing that that occurred.

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