John Kline: “Strengthening career and technical education should be the next step in that important effort.”

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.

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.

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

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.