[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H8123-H8124]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     RESIDENCY AND RURAL HOSPITALS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Joyce) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, today, fourth-year medical 
students submitted their applications to residency programs across our 
country, preparing to enter the workforce as surgeons, specialists, and 
family doctors.
  As these students begin the process of choosing the hospitals where 
they will work, I urge them to consider working in rural communities. 
Working in facilities that are struggling right now to recruit new 
physicians, and these new medical students--these new, highly-trained 
individuals--will be able to serve communities that desperately need 
them.
  For too long, a lack of doctors has been a significant barrier to 
care for families in rural Pennsylvania. To address this critical 
shortage, I am proud to have created the Homegrown Healthcare 
Initiative, which pairs third- and fourth-year medical students with 
hospitals across Pennsylvania's 13th Congressional District.
  So far we have been able to place nearly 30 students in hospitals in 
Blair, Cambria, Fulton, and Franklin counties. It is time to ensure the 
students who were raised in rural communities return to these 
communities to live, to work, and to practice medicine.

  To all of the medical students applying for residency today, good 
luck, and

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I thank them for all the work that they will do on behalf of their 
patients.


                        out of control inflation

  Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, today, we recognize the 
problems that we are facing with a country that has spiraling out of 
control inflation. We have an opportunity with the Republican 
Commitment to America, the commitment that the Republican Party has put 
forward, to make a Nation that is safe, to make a Nation that is 
accountable.
  As Republicans, we have brought forth a four-part statement that will 
have the necessary oversight to control and have the citizens have the 
ability to have their voices heard.
  The Commitment to America is the path forward throughout this 
spiraling inflation that is affecting each and every American today.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge all Americans to look at this valuable commitment 
that we as Republicans will bring forward.

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