Children and pediatricians owe tremendous thanks to you, Chairman Rockefeller, to Senator Hatch, Senator Wyden, Senator Roberts, and the other Senators who are here and have been here today, for your bipartisan leadership and working to…

We are talking about dealing with everything from continuing resolutions, all of the appropriations, what are we going to do about ISIS, and all the rest of it, in a lame duck session forum.

outreach to the community.

Just as a follow-up to the question of funding which was addressed, CBO actually has come out with an estimate on what all of this would cost. It is not $20 billion; it is in the area of zero up to $10 billion over that period of 4 years.

It is a really popular program.

CHIP is not yet included. It is not included.

Without congressional action, I say again, CHIP will run out of funding next fall, placing at risk the well-being of hundreds of thousands of children and pregnant women.

We urge Congress to, first and foremost, adopt a 4-year extension of CHIP funding through 2019.

We simply cannot afford to take this major step backwards and jeopardize the future of generations by allowing CHIP to expire.

It is not right to shift the added financial burdens onto working families when a cost-effective solution for maintaining the coverage they already have exists.

This is a good bill. It has helped. It has done even what the Affordable Care Act has not been able to do.

This, I have to say without sentiment, will be the last Health Subcommittee hearing that I chair.

CHIP is a game changer for millions of children.

Creating this program has been one of the most meaningful things I have done in my career in public service.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate, Secretary Hagel, the statement you made when you said that ISIS poses an imminent threat to every interest we have, whether it's in Iraq or anyplace else.

But, you mentioned the Chiefs, and Odierno and the other Chiefs have come and testified in this room before us that, even before these things erupted, it was not adequate.

It will not involve American combat troops fighting on the soil. American forces will not have a combat mission.