WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Sen. Chuck Grassley issued the following news release:
Q: How's your bipartisan law working to improve the nation's organ donation system?
A: Nearly three years ago, Congress enacted a landmark law I wrote with Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon that overhauled the nation's organ transplant system to better serve patients and donors. My bipartisan legislation was designed to boost competition, improve patient outcomes, maximize access to lifesaving organs, safeguard donors, protect taxpayer dollars and end an inefficient 40-year monopoly of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. Leading up to the law's enactment, I conducted nearly two decades of congressional oversight and scrutinized the system with a fine-tooth...