Political Quotes

“I want to bring a rider to the attention of Members. In conference, a rider was added, not debated on this floor or in the House, that extended for 2 months the period of time in which Secretary Shalala and the Department of Health and Human Services--for regulations on organ donation policy to be implemented. The organ donation policy advocated by patient transplant organizations, to have a much more equitable system of organ donation, was put forward on a bipartisan basis support. The Senator from Louisiana put in an amendment to delay the implementation for 2 additional months over the objections of the administration. People will be dying as a result of this. Sick people who need organs are not going to get those organs as a result of this delay. We should not allow this to continue. I'm going to vote against this, and I hope that we will not continue this kind of delay.”