John Kline: “It just doesn't seem like there is, you know--there is a lot of defeatism, I think, within that agency.”

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

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…

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.