Jay Rockefeller: “Families are hurting all across the country. We all know that. They're counting on Congress to help them out.”

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.

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

Thank you very much.

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.