Jay Rockefeller: “we are a Nation of such optimism that nobody wants to admit that... they just get depressed and they can't perform to…”

It is not right to shift the added financial burdens onto working families when a cost-effective solution for maintaining the coverage they already have exists.

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

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.

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