Jay Rockefeller: “Today the Committee seeks a solution to our Nation's economic drift away from our commitment to manufacturing.”

This is a good bill. It has helped. It has done even what the Affordable Care Act has not been able to do.

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…

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

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.