This is just under two hours. The finance committee will come to order. The last place anybody wants to hear about gross mismanagement and incompetence is in the business of saving lives. That is precisely at unfortunately with the finance committee needs to discuss today. This mornings hearing is an update on the investigation senator, grassley and i, along with senator young have been conducting for more than 2. 5 years. It examines a network of dozens of organizations with the demand to organ transplant and a group that oversees and coordinates them. The United Network for organ sharing. We have reviewed 100 thousand of their documents, totaling more than half a million pages. Before i get to specific findings, i want to frame what we have learned as simply as possible. Already Many Americans are dying needlessly becauseuno and many of the transplant organizations it oversees are failing and seem uninterested in improving. The existing alphabet soup of acronyms and organizations, i
The finance committee will come to order. The last place anybody wants to hear about gross mismanagement and incompetence is in the business of saving lives. That is precisely at unfortunately with the finance committee needs to discuss today. This mornings hearing is an update on the investigation senator, grassley and i, along with senator young have been conducting for more than 2. 5 years. It examines a network of dozens of organizations with the demand to organ transplant and a group that oversees and coordinates them. The United Network for organ sharing. We have reviewed 100 thousand of their documents, totaling more than half a million pages. Before i get to specific findings, i want to frame what we have learned as simply as possible. Already Many Americans are dying needlessly becauseuno and many of the transplant organizations it oversees are failing and seem uninterested in improving. The existing alphabet soup of acronyms and organizations, i will start out with a bitter b
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
This, 95 to 100 , with great reason. Mr. Cooper. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I admire you, gentlemen, for your service to the nation and your work particularly since you are having to operate an irrational budget environment. Almost none of your predecessors have ever had to do that. When we have a house of representatives that refuses to even open discussions with the senate on a budget for america. Our media environment, many folks back home are unaware of this. Theyre mad at congress in general. They dont understand that one house of congress is unwilling to talk to another house of congress about having a budget for america. Somehow we have gotten in our heads especially the younger members its okay for the house to have a budget and senate to have a separate budget. Never the two shall meet. Were supposed to have a budget for america. This committee and markup of it my amendment voted overwhelmingly by voice to give the pentagon flexibility to address the mo defensing need. When a re
Top h. H. S. Officials reflected the president s poor leadership in their hearings today and last week. The they dodge questions. They withheld critical information and delivered more promises that wont be kept. Strikingly, the obamacare enrollment site was actually down as the h. H. S. Secretary testified for the first time about the web sites troubled rollout, and even assured americans the web site is working. Its just slow and unreliable. Americans are understandably frustrateed with this failed effort and most importantly this failed law. Last week, i cosponsored legislation that requires h. H. S. To provide weekly reports to congress and to the public about healthcare. Gov. This ensures americans who have paid over 400 million for this exchange actually received the transparency that they deserve. While enacting this bill is one worthwhile step, the issues with this law arent just about the web site. The reality is there are much larger issues that no fix to the web site can solv