Mr. SCHNEIDER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Conrad 30
Waiver program set to expire at the end of this week. This program
helps match medically underserved communities, both rural and urban,
with much-needed doctors. Currently, foreign medical students studying
here using J-1 visas must return to their home country and wait 2 years
before they can apply to work in the United States. This makes no
sense. The American medical education system attracts the best and the
brightest and produces the best medical graduates in the world. When so
many of our communities are struggling to attract medical
professionals, we should be creating incentives for these newly trained
doctors to stay.