Lawmakers Hope To Fund CHIP This Month, But Timing Is Uncertain

Lawmakers still hope to fund the Children's Health Insurance Program by year's end, even though the omnibus appropriations bill on which lobbyists thought CHIP would ride seems to be slipping into next year. House Republicans on Wednesday (Dec. 13) added the CHIP bill that they already passed, including its partisan offsets, to a short-term government-funding bill, but a Senate Democratic aide said negotiations over government spending legislation, of which CHIP is a part, are unresolved. Congress passed Thursday (Dec. 7)...