Jay Rockefeller: “I have faith in the chairman of the Finance Committee. I think this was a bipartisan decision to do something about a…”

“I have faith in the chairman of the Finance Committee. I think this was a bipartisan decision to do something about a problem that has been with us throughout our history, which is no longer deemed acceptable. The Senator is entirely correct when he says there are no simple answers. I want to assure the Senator--because I sat through, obviously, all the Finance Committee meetings, both public and private--there was never an attempt to sort of grab at money for the purpose of saying let's put that toward health insurance for children. It was a sense that we have a real problem here and we want to try to address it as responsibly and carefully as possible. That was followed by a bipartisan discussion and agreement.”