Political Quotes

“the organ transplant business and network governance has been in shambles for decades, and people have needlessly died because of it, and we have passed very good legislation unanimously to correct it. So I come to the Senate floor because I have very serious concerns about the Biden administration's implementation of H.R. 2544. That legislation goes by the title of Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Act. I am joined by a colleague who has worked really hard on this issue, Senator Moran of Kansas, who will also give his views on this issue. He worked with me and championed this very important issue. On September 22 of this year, this legislation, H.R. 2544, was signed into law by this President. In less than 3 months, the Health Resources and Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services is already ignoring congressional intent while asking Congress--can you believe it--for money to implement the law, and it is presumably to implement the law contrary to what the legislation requires. Now, I am proud to have been a cosponsor of this very important bipartisan piece of legislation. We fought alongside patient organizations that knew this whole setup, for decades, was not working the way it should. We did this with the hope and expectation that we would have real competition to manage our organ donation system.…”