John Kline: “I am now very pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Paulsen), my colleague from the State of…”

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thank the witnesses for being with us today. Excellent testimony, as we're trying to solve the problem that some of us have been dealing with for a long time.

During the eight long years our team spent working to pass this bill, no topic was more hotly debated than that of annual testing. . . In the end, we arrived at a fair and sensible compromise in the law: Keep the requirement that the same…

We owe it to them to set aside our political differences and come to the table to find a bipartisan solution that secures their future.

If Congress does not reform the architecture of the multiemployer pension system, then it won't matter how much money we throw at this problem.