John Kline: “I implore this committee to judge the merits of community and private two year colleges.”

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.

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.

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

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.