Jay Rockefeller: “If you have an objective that you want--you want to build roads and bridges--then you do that thing which is necessary…”

You could see it, but you could not do anything about it.

It is a really popular program.

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.

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.