John Kline: “Congress promised to reduce the Federal role and restore local control, and we intend to keep our promise.”

Former Chairman John Kline, while recognizing that the overtime threshold should be responsibly reformed, called the administration's drastic move extreme and partisan.

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.

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.

It could have a combination of tuition increases, service reductions, and possibly layoffs.