Jay Rockefeller: “I had a very heavy role back in 1986 in creating the Authority.”

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.

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.

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