Jay Rockefeller: “The whole principle--and I am going to get hit over the head by the gentlelady on my left when I say this, but the whole…”

I ask unanimous consent to give my remarks while seated at my desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I am interested in the children who still have to be reached out to, in the Alabamas and West Virginias and Pennsylvanias and Ohios, et cetera.

CHIP is a game changer for millions of children.

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.