Sam Brownback: “I draw attention to the body to one particular provision that is important. It is J-1 visas. These visas are granted to…”

“I draw attention to the body to one particular provision that is important. It is J-1 visas. These visas are granted to people who were born in another country, other than the United States, but trained according to medical standards in the United States, in passing medical boards in the United States, and then able to serve throughout the United States. I know the Presiding Officer's State and my State are dependent on people born in foreign countries being able to provide medical services in Kansas. We have 105 counties and 20 that would be medically underserved if not for this feature called J-1 visas for medically underserved counties to have medical personnel, as I previously described. Within the provision of the judicial reauthorization bill, it allows for 30 J-1 visas on a per State, per year basis to work with recruitment of medical personnel. My State of Kansas is dependent on this feature. Twenty of our 105 counties would be medically underserved if not for J-1 visas.”