Organ donations save lives.

And now the federal government is working on new safeguards for the organ transplant system.

After reports a Kentucky group prepared patients for organ removals even after they'd shown signs of life, organ removal takes place just after a person dies.

It's an issue that hits home with one Kentucky congressman.

Congressman Brett Guthrie, a Republican from Kentucky's second district, chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

And he knows what it's like to lose a loved one who needs an organ.

And unfortunately, my mom did not get a liver, but she died waiting on a liver.

And she was called one time thinking that the liver would be available.

So we actually went down was at Vanderbilt University and Nashville had her, they were prepping for surgery.

Actually took her to.

Sorry.

I told her until my dad goes, I don't survive this.

And it's been a great life.

And so you have those moments together.

And then the surgeon had gone to, Chattanooga to do the liver.

And then when he got down there, he came.

He said, well, it's not in a shape that can be transplant.

So my mom didn't get the transplant, and then she waited and passed away before she got another one.

So those things got a we need more people to donate.

We need people to be donors.

We need, And so when we saw this case pacifically a Kentucky case that, is, you know, there's some nuances to it.

So I want people to remain donors.

We're going to make sure that people have confidence in those of us all.

I've read the reports, I've seen it.

I'm not changing my donor status somewhat to make sure that I'm available to donate, because I feel strongly that that's important.

But people need to have confidence in the system, or at least know the questions to ask if they're in this in stage with their loved one.

Because we're you're sitting there and someone you're getting prepped to go get your next.

But hopefully, chance at life.

You also, as you sit there, know that there's some other family in some other emergency room somewhere else having a different experience.

And they are losing a loved one.

And but they are willing the loved one either designate or they're willing to to their loved one to live on by helping somebody else love.

And so that's what we want to promote, and that's the perspective I bring to the Health Resources and Services administration wants new national policies, making it easier to pause the donation process.

If there are concerns about the donor's eligibility.

More than 100,000 people are on the national donor waiting list.

About 13 people die every day waiting for an organ.