Nursing School Capacity Act of 2007 (H.R. 677)

Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ) reintroduced the Nursing School Capacity Act of 2007 (H.R. 677).  This legislation would provide for a study by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to identify constraints encountered by schools of nursing in admitting and graduating the number of nurses sufficient to meet the health care needs of the United States, and for other purposes. 

ANA Position: SUPPORT!

Co-Sponsors of the Nursing School Capacity Act of 2007

H.R. 677:

Sanford	Bishop, Jr. (D-GA)
Earl	Blumenauer (D-OR)
Madeleine	Bordallo (D-GU)
Leonard	Boswell (D-IA)
Rick	Boucher (D-VA)
Robert	Brady (D-PA)
Corrine	Brown (D-FL)
Lois	Capps (D-CA)
Julia	Carson (D-IN)
Donna	Christensen (D-VI)
William Lacy	Clay (D-MO)
Steve	Cohen (D-TN)
John	Conyers (D-MI)
Jim	Costa (D-CA)
Elijah	Cummings (D-MD)
Danny	Davis (D-IL)
Lincoln	Davis (D-TN)
Peter	DeFazio (D-OR)
Anna	Eshoo (D-CA)
Chaka	Fattah (D-PA)
Bart	Gordon (D-TN)
Al	Green (D-TX)
Raul	Grijalva (D-AZ)
Phil	Hare (D-IL)
Alcee	Hastings (D-FL)
Stephanie	Herseth Sandlin (D-SD)
Brian	Higgins (D-NY)
Maurice	Hinchey (D-NY)
Ruben	Hinojosa (D-TX)
Mazie	Hirono (D-HI)
Tim	Holden (D-PA)
Darlene	Hooley (D-OR)
Steve	Israel (D-NY)
Sheila	Jackson-Lee (D-TX)
Bobby	Jindal (R-LA)
Eddie Bernice	Johnson (D-TX)
Henry “Hank”	Johnson (D-GA)
Stephanie	Tubbs Jones (D-OH)
Walter	Jones (R-NC)
Paul	Kanjorski (D-PA)
Marcy	Kaptur (D-OH)
Carolyn	Kilpatrick (D-MI)
Dennis	Kucinich (D-OH)
Tom	Lantos (D-CA)
Barbara	Lee (D-CA)
Sander	Levin (D-MI)
Frank	LoBiondo R-NJ)
David	Loebsack (D-IA)
Doris	Matsui (D-CA)
Carolyn	McCarthy (D-NY)
Betty	McCollum (D-MN)
Jim	McDermott (D-WA)
John	McHugh (R-NY)
Jerry	McNerney (D-CA)
Michael	McNulty (D-NY)
Michael	Michaud (D-ME)
James	Moran (D-VA)
Eleanor Holmes	Norton (D-DC)
Solomon	Ortiz (D-TX)
Bill	Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ)
Donald	Payne (D-NJ)
Charles “Chip”	Pickering (R-MS)
Silvestre	Reyes (D-TX)
C.A. Dutch	Ruppersberger (D-MD)
Bobby	Rush (D-IL)
Linda	Sanchez (D-CA)
John P.	Sarbanes (D-MD)
John M.	Spratt, Jr. (D-SC)
Pete	Stark (D-CA)
Betty	Sutton (D-OH)
Bennie	Thompson (D-MS)
Mike	Thompson (D-CA)
Timothy	Walz (D-MN)
Henry	Waxman (D-CA)
Peter	Welch (D-VT)
Lynn	Woolsey (D-CA)

 Republican Representatives in Italics

(List as of 3/3/08)