John Kline: “I now yield 2 minutes to the gentlelady from Alabama (Mrs. Roby), a member of the committee.”

The law explicitly prohibits the secretary from interfering, yet that is precisely what your proposal would do.

I could not agree with your words more at that point and I appreciate hearing that perspective.

You can trust that we will abide by the letter of the law as we move forward.

The Department chose, once again, to take an extreme partisan approach that will hurt the very people they claim they want to help.