I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker. I rise in support of this bill. and I concur with the comments made by the gentleman from Illinois (Chairman HYDE) and the gentlewoman from California . Mr. Speaker. Because of a shortage of nurses in the late 1980s. Congress passed the Immigration Nursing Relief Act of 1989. That Act created for five years the H1A temporary visa program for registered nurses. When the program sunseted. the House of Representatives decided against extending it. There does not appear to be a national nursing shortage todayso. there is no need to revise the H1A program.
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