Jay Rockefeller: “Let me just say that you cannot find in this Senate anybody who's more opposed to a missile defense system than I am.”

one of the things that happened with the CBO scoring was that yes, there was a cost because you were keeping CHIP operating, but there was a savings because the children were not transferring into the Affordable Care Act, for example.

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

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

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.