Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that at 2:15 p.m. on this day there be 20 minutes of debate equally divided in the usual form on the Wicker amendment prior to the vote in relation to the Wicker amendment, and that the remaining provisions of the previous order remain in effect. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________
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one of the things that happened with the CBO scoring was that yes, there was a cost because you were keeping CHIP operating, but there was a savings because the children were not transferring into the Affordable Care Act, for example.
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.
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.
This is a good bill. It has helped. It has done even what the Affordable Care Act has not been able to do.
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