John Kline: “Since former Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously declared we had to pass the president's health care plan to learn what was in…”

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for his leadership on this issue and for yielding the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act. A quality…

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…

The law explicitly prohibits the secretary from interfering, yet that is precisely what your proposal would do.

I cannot State emphatically enough that far-reaching reform, fiscal responsibility, and bipartisanship must be the principles that guide us as we work to solve this problem.