Jay Rockefeller: “more needs to be done.”

We simply cannot afford to take this major step backwards and jeopardize the future of generations by allowing CHIP to expire.

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

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

I ask unanimous consent to engage in a colloquy with Senator Leahy of Vermont, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, regarding S. 2520, the FOIA Improvement Act of 2014. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.