AAACN already signed onto Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) Dear Colleague Letter (by the April 25th deadline) and there's still time for you to circulate this Title VII letter to your Senators! Please see the draft attached and personalize this with your area of expertise and years of experience and send off to your Senate Contacts please!
Senate Nursing Caucus Co-Chair Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) is circulating a Dear Colleague Letter supporting $530 million for Title VIII in Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 (see attached copy of the sign on letter). We need your help! Please ask your Senate contacts, on both sides of the aisle, to sign onto this Dear Colleague Letter before the deadline of COB Wednesday, May 21, 2025. Should offices have any questions they can reach out to Becca Damante in Sen. Merkley's office (Becca_Damante@merkley.senate.gov).
Thank you for helping to secure as many Senators signatures as possible going into the FY 2026 appropriations cycle.
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Leondra Weiss MN, ARNP, FNP-BC, AMB-BC, C-EFM
Clinical Nurse Educator, Family Medicine ARNP
Harborview Medical Center, Sea Mar
Vashon WA
(425) 870-0558
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