Diabetes is a rapidly growing public health problem for Asian Americans (2), and public health promotion may more effectively target subgroups separately given differences in potential barriers to care (language, culture, education, and socioeconomics).
Mr. Reid will then introduce his version of the stopgap spending bill, stripped of the health care language and other policy measures.
Opponents were especially critical of the health care language, and critics said the agreement could put employees in a new state insurance program, called SustiNet.
The Senate would, of course, instantly reject the health care language, but it could then approve the spending measure to prevent a shutdown.
Recruiters expect that the temporary immigrants will have more education, foreign language skills and professional expertise than many Americans who enlist, helping the military to fill shortages in medical care, language interpretation and field intelligence analysis.
The 27-member panel will have 15 months from its first meeting to make recommendations on education, citizenship status, civil rights, housing, health care, language proficiency and job training.
Instead, he will move to strip the health care language from the stopgap government spending bill and send it back to the House on Monday afternoon, just hours before the government is set to shut down at 12 01 a.m.
Senate Democratic leaders announced they would immediately take up the spending bill, strip out the health care language and send it back to the House free of policy prescriptions.
Senior Senate Republicans pushed Mr. Cruz on Tuesday to give up his stalling tactics and let the Senate take its final votes as soon as possible to strip out the health care language and other policy prescriptions, then approve new language to keep the government operating until mid-November.
