Minnesota Representative Joe Atkins (DFL-Inver Grove Heights) and Senator Jeff Hayden (DFL-Minneapolis) stick up for nurses and counter the St Paul Pioneer Press editorial against the Standards of Care Act.
![Rep. Joe Atkins (DFL-Inver Grove Heights) carehearing08](http://mnnurses.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/carehearing08.jpg?resize=392%2C261)
Link to article:
http://www.twincities.com/opinion/ci_22631041/taking-exception-safe-nurse-patient-staffing-saves-lives