Jay Rockefeller: “While today's hearing is about progress, in many ways it's more about lack of progress over the last several decades.”

Thank you very much.

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.

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.

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