John Kline: “There are few issues more important to the strength of the nation's economy than education.”

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.

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.

Republicans and Democrats have a history of bipartisan cooperation on this issue.