IV 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 976 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 18, 2024 Ms. Schakowsky (for herself, Mr. Joyce of Ohio , Mr. Sablan , Mr. Bacon , Ms. Scanlon , Mr. Tonko , and Ms. Bonamici ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce RESOLUTION Recognizing the roles and the contributions of Americas Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) and their critical role in providing quality health care for the public and the Nations Armed Forces for more than 150 years, through multiple public health emergencies, and beyond.

Whereas Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) are essential to America’s health care system, providing high-quality, cost-effective anesthesia and pain management care; Whereas CRNAs safely administer more than 50,000,000 anesthetics to patients each year; Whereas CRNAs are the primary providers of anesthesia care in rural America, enabling health care facilities in these medically underserved areas to offer obstetrical, surgical, trauma stabilization, and pain management services for millions of underserved and at-risk people; Whereas CRNAs practice in every setting in which anesthesia is delivered, including traditional hospital surgical suites and obstetrical delivery rooms, the offices of dentists, podiatrists, ophthalmologists, and plastic surgeons, ambulatory surgical centers, and United States Military and Public Health Services and Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities; and Whereas the purpose of National CRNA Week, held January 21, 2024, through January 27, 2024, is to raise public awareness of and celebrate the Nation’s 61,000 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists and student registered nurse anesthetists: Now, therefore, be it