John Kline: “I am pleased now to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Messer), another member of the committee.”

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…

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.

Workers and retirees must have peace of mind when it comes to their hard-earned retirement benefits.

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.