Jay Rockefeller: “Everything you are saying... is really affirming an answer to a question that I gave to you.”

We need to provide more transitional housing and more training for law enforcement, counselors, and healthcare workers to make it easier for victims to come forward.

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.

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…

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