John Kline: “I just think it is really, really important that we keep faith and that we not change policy.”

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…

Former Chairman John Kline, while recognizing that the overtime threshold should be responsibly reformed, called the administration's drastic move extreme and partisan.

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.

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.