The finance committee will come to order. The last place anyone wants to hear about gross mismanagement and incompetence is in the business of saving lives. Thats precisely and unfortunately what the finance Committee Meets to discuss today. This mornings hearing is an update on investigation senator grassley and i along with senator cartlin and senator young have been conducting for more than two and a half years. Examine the network of dozens of organizations that manage organ transplants, and particularly the group that oversees and coordinates them, the United Network for organ sharing, or unos. We have reviewed 100,000 units documents, totaling a half 1 million pages. Before i get to sit specific findings, i want to phrase what we have learned simply as possible. Far too Many Americans are dying needlessly because unos and many of the transplant organizations overseas are failing and seem an interested in improving. These issues involve an alphabet soup of acronyms and organizatio