Jay Rockefeller: “But it takes a two-thirds majority to override it, your decision.”

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.

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.

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.

If confirmed, I will commit to review all of the statutory requirements and congressional deadlines.