WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security, and Representative Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) today reintroduced the Public Health Nursing Act, legislation that would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to bolster and sustain a comprehensive public health nursing workforce. Specifically, the Public Health Nursing Act would authorize $5 billion annually over ten years to establish a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grant program for state, local, Tribal, and territorial public health departments to recruit, hire, train...