House EC Oversight Hearing: Ensuring Patient Safety - US Organ Procurement and Transplant System x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
HHS seeking to reform organ donation system
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Press Release
HHS Finds Systemic Disregard for Sanctity of Life in Organ Transplant System hhs.gov/press-room/hrs…
"Secretary Kennedy's leadership, HHS is restoring integrity and transparency to organ procurement and transplant policy by putting patients’ lives first. These reforms are essential to restoring trust, ensuring informed consent, and protecting the rights and dignity of prospective donors and their families."
“Our findings show that hospitals allowed the organ procurement process to begin when patients showed signs of life, and this is horrifying,” Secretary Kennedy said. “The organ procurement organizations that coordinate access to transplants will be held accountable. The entire system must be fixed to ensure that every potential donor’s life is treated with the sanctity it deserves.”
"Ensuring Patient Safety: Oversight of the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplant System"
Subcommittee:House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Witnesses & Stmts
Dr. Raymond Lynch
Chief, Organ Transplant Branch, Health Resources and Services Administration,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services congress.gov/119/meeting/ho…
📢CALL TO ACTION! Rescissions Act!
🚨 If Congress fails to act by July 18th, the executive branch will be forced to spend the wasteful funds as originally appropriated!
President Trump’s rescissions proposal would reclaim $9.4 billion in wasteful spending, including $8.3 billion from the State Department and USAID, and $1.1 billion from NPR and PBS
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Senators in opposition have raised objections on namely two points: 1. Foreign Aid: Cuts to PEPFAR
One point of concern from Senator Susan Collins, Mitch McConnell and others is the proposed cuts to PEPFAR, the U.S. program to combat global HIV/AIDS. However, the package does not cut core AIDS treatment funding. Instead, it targets the Biden administration’s recent ideological expansions of PEPFAR, which shifted the program toward promoting abortion and gender ideology abroad. These changes opened the door to serious misuse: in Mozambique, four nurses funded by PEPFAR were found to have performed abortions; while in Zambia, PEPFAR-funded medicines were stolen and illegally sold in nearly half the country’s pharmacies.
The rescissions package rightly responds to this abuse by targeting misuse and politically driven funding, NOT the lifesaving care PEPFAR was created to provide.
2. CPB: Cuts to National Public Radio (NPR)
Concerns are being voiced by Senator Murkowski and Rounds who claim that it could impact rural emergency alerts. However, Heritage experts have noted that agencies like NOAA already have the capability to handle emergency communications, and NPR is not essential for delivering these services.
BACKGROUND:
The Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has worked in tandem with agencies across the Executive Branch to identify waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement that has led to unnecessary spending of taxpayer dollars. The Administration has cancelled unneeded or inappropriate grants, contracts and leases and is downsizing bloated bureaucracies. To lock in budgetary savings from these actions, however, Congress should rescind appropriations DOGE has shown to be unnecessary, and it should reduce spending levels going forward, consistent with a more streamlined federal government. Congress should also codify appropriate fiscal accountability and transparency measures DOGE is using, in order to make these processes standard operating procedure for the federal government going forward.
HEARING PURPOSE:
This hearing will examine the nature and extent of waste, fraud, abuse and unnecessary spending DOGE has identified, and assess how it can be converted into permanent savings for taxpayers. It will also assess the fiscal tracking and transparency strategies that DOGE has employed, to determine which should be continued and codified. oversight.house.gov/hearing/lockin…
This MUST be removed from H.R.1!
It's against the will of the people!
SEC. 43201. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
(c) Moratorium
It will contribute to 1. Erosion of State-Level Consumer Protections 2. Increased Risks in Critical Sectors Like Healthcare 3. Undermining State Sovereignty and Federalism 4. Delayed Accountability for AI Harms 5. Ambiguity and Legal Uncertainty 6. Potential to Harm Vulnerable Communities 7. Risk of Repeating Past Regulatory Failures
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Detailed reasons why this the 10yr Moratorium must be removed! acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc…
"Moratorium on State AI Regulation:
Imposes a 10-year ban, starting May 13, 2025, preventing states and local governments from enforcing laws or regulations on AI models, systems, or automated decision tools involved in interstate commerce, centralizing oversight at the federal level."
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You DO know that, by law, Congress only has to report their trading. And you are surely aware that many members, although they are making $100-$200k/yr they are worth millions.
Many times, they use information gleamed from the Committees they are on, new Govt leases and purchases.
Unethical? Yes. Illegal? No.
This information is publicly accessible.
Would it be unethical to take advantage of this information? We pay Congress members and they in turn use their salary to buy new stocks based on information they get inside the inner workings of government.
Should the citizens take advantage of what they know and their actions?