John Kline: “I have committed to that, and they know that I strongly support the program.”

There is nothing fair or excusable about a 75-year-old retiree with health care concerns finding out that the pension he was promised just isn't funded.

Part of the way we need to approach these solutions is to adopt reforms that address the structural flaws within the plans.

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…

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.