Jay Rockefeller: “It is sham reform that perpetuates the current system of self-regulation.”

If confirmed, I pledge to consider all relevant facts and public comments in the docket.

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.

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

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