Jay Rockefeller: “I especially want to recognize my former colleague, Lisa Madigan, the Attorney General of Illinois.”

Furthermore, if we are going to potentially burden our government agencies with increased costs that will be associated with complying with the bill, then I think Congress should also provide these agencies with sufficient funding to deal…

I come to the floor to wholly support the comments of my colleagues, the Senator from California and the Senator from Arizona, to speak about a matter of great importance to me personally but more importantly to the country. The Senate…

I thank Senator Leahy for attempting to address my concerns about this bill. I thank his committee staff for working with my committee staff to insert clarifying report language.

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