Associations will engage with Congress on some of the hottest issues in the presidential campaigns when they hold lobby days and policy conferences this week in Washington, D.C.

Nearly 300 members of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners will be on Capitol Hill Tuesday; meetings are planned with 262 lawmakers or staff, a record for the AANP. Priorities include legislation that would allow nurse practitioners to prescribe and manage specialized treatments for addiction to heroin and other opioids. Advocates will also urge Congress to pass the Home Health Care Planning Act and to give nurse practitioners and other advanced practice nurses "full practice authority"—independent of physicians—at Veterans Administration facilities in all states.

A session on lead contamination in Flint, Mich., was on the agenda for the Association of Metropolitan Water Authorities. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy gave the keynote address today. More than 100 water industry leaders will attend the AMWA policy conference, and many will also visit Capitol Hill.

With the Senate on its spring break and Easter on March 27, only a few other associations will hold fly-ins this week. They include the Council of the Great City Schools and the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing will hold a Student Policy Summit.

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