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

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.

No one voted for me in less than 35 days, and I would afford employees the same opportunity to be able to make an informed decision with regard to choosing their union representation.

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…

We owe it to them to set aside our political differences and come to the table to find a bipartisan solution that secures their future.