John Kline: “Stimulus is appropriate when the economy is falling, and we can debate the effectiveness of the American Recovery Act.”

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

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…

The last thing taxpayers need is to foot the bill for a multi-billion dollar bailout.

[The Every Student Succeeds Act] is clear: Education decision-making now rests with states and districts, and the federal role is to support and inform those decisions.