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...H.R. 6153, the Veterans' Medical Personnel Recruitment and Retention Act of 2008, which, if passed, will do just that. It is the companion bill to S. 2969, which Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii introduced May 1.

The original co-sponsors of the bill include the other two nurses serving in the House, Lois Capps of California and Carolyn McCarthy of New York, as well as Rep. Michael Burgess, a medical doctor who represents Texas' 26th Congressional District....more