John Kline: “If we want to keep high-wage, high-skilled jobs here, the only way to do that is to increase access to some form of…”

We owe it to them to set aside our political differences and come to the table to find a bipartisan solution that secures their future.

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…

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.

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.