John Kline: “I'm very, very pleased right now to yield 3 minutes to the author of this terrific piece of legislation, a member of the…”

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

There is nothing fair or excusable about a 75-year-old retiree with health care concerns finding out that the pension he was promised just isn't funded.

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…

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.