Jay Rockefeller: “Impacts of the 2013 Government Shutdown”

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…

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.

We urge Congress to, first and foremost, adopt a 4-year extension of CHIP funding through 2019.