Legislators also pressed on funding priorities
The AVMA Executive Board and House Advisory Committee were in Washington, D.C., this April, encouraging members of Congress to support the Veterinary Public Health Workforce Expansion Act currently in the Health subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin (left) and Dr. Roger K. Mahr, AVMA immediate past president, talk on the Capitol steps while AVMA President Gregory S. Hammer and board member, Dr. Clark K. Fobian, look on.
The lobbying was part of the board and HAC’s biennial visit to the nation’s capital, April 13-15. Hosted by the AVMA Governmental Relations Division, the time is a crash course in U.S. politics
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