Jay Rockefeller: “I believe the culture of safety that Americans expect, as they should, is clearly not always a priority for cruise…”

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

If funding is not continued for CHIP, it is going to be a nightmare.

Just as a follow-up to the question of funding which was addressed, CBO actually has come out with an estimate on what all of this would cost. It is not $20 billion; it is in the area of zero up to $10 billion over that period of 4 years.

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