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 nurse anesthetists were some of the first anesthesia providers ever and have been providing care for more than 150 years; 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; Whereas CRNAs have served on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, using their advanced skills in airway management, intubation, and ventilator management to help the sickest COVID–19 patients, leaving the comfort of their homes and families to travel to hospitals and facilities across the country so they can assist where the need is greatest; and Whereas the purpose of National CRNA Week, held January 23, 2023, through January 28, 2023, is to raise public awareness of and celebrate the Nation’s 59,000 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists and student registered nurse anesthetists: Now, therefore, be it