Political Quotes

“Let me begin by thanking Chairman Wyden for his leadership on the need to fundamentally reform our Nation's organ transplant program. I share his concerns. A 2020 bipartisan Finance Committee investigation that Chairman Wyden co-led with respect to the current system found ``lapses in patient safety, misuse of taxpayer dollars, and tens of thousands of organs going unrecovered or not transplanted . . . resulting in fraud, waste, and abuse of our Nation's Medicare program and American taxpayer dollars.'' That is unacceptable and that has got to change. The legislation Senator Wyden would like to pass in the Senate today by unanimous consent, while not perfect, includes important reforms to the current system that I support. Once it is signed into law, there may need to be some technical changes to it that I look forward to working with Chairman Wyden and my other colleagues on. All of us believe that the administration should have the flexibility it needs to fix the current system. We also believe that corporations should not be able to make an outrageous profit from the organ network. As my good friend from Oregon knows, this bill is within the jurisdiction of the HELP Committee, a committee that I chair.…”