John Kline: “I am a little confused about who has the right to close. The CHAIR. Where there is no qualifying opponent, the gentleman…”

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…

Trial lawyers profit while workers are denied their fair share under a broken regulatory system.

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