Jay Rockefeller: “I believe that Chairman Baucus has outlined a reasonable process for moving forward under which a variety of concerns…”

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.

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

That is stunning. It has not been reauthorized, CHIP. It is still out there, floating.

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.