John Kline: “It also sends the signal to our international competitors that we will not be at the table and we are not an important…”

Part of the way we need to approach these solutions is to adopt reforms that address the structural flaws within the plans.

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…

Republicans and Democrats have a history of bipartisan cooperation on this issue.

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.