Jay Rockefeller: “Sometimes it just takes about a year and a half to get confirmed, but that is part of public service.”

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.

If confirmed, I pledge to consider all relevant facts and public comments in the docket.

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.

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