John Kline

These regulations have created an environment where students are not getting the nourishment they need, and food and taxpayer dollars wind up in the trashcan.

Ensuring children have access to healthy food is a goal we all share and lies at the heart of our effort to reform federal child nutrition programs.

As I've said before, it's just commonsense that if children are hungry or malnourished, then they are less likely to succeed in the classroom.

As I have said before, it is just common sense that if children are hungry or malnourished then they are less likely to succeed in the classroom.

If you are compelling nonunion members to pay grievance agency fees, you are essentially compelling them to join the union

I wish that Congressman Pocan was still here.

Right-to-work is an important tool for state leaders trying to attract new businesses and good-paying jobs.

We have no reason to believe this case will be any different, and America's workers are once again expected to pay the price.

We are here to discuss the latest in a series of actions by the National Labor Relations Board designed to empower Big Labor at the expense of America's workers.

The board needs to pull back and leave employees in right-to-work states alone.

But it does seem a little bit incongruous to then talk about--and proudly talk about--95 percent compliance when the process would suggest otherwise.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks for the hearing and thanks for allowing me to question.

How can it be that this school has not been on the list for replacement? How can that be?

There is no way to get that education and to learn under those conditions.

But you can't be well educated, in my opinion, when you are attending school wearing your coat and wearing your mittens and hoping that the blanket keeps out the 30-degree-below-zero air.

We are disappointed that Kevin Washburn, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, declined an invitation to join us this morning.

I encourage my colleagues to avoid political distractions that would merely shift the focus away from these unique, vulnerable children.

Every child in every school should receive an excellent education.

It is time now for it to be all of our responsibility.

You have a bureaucratic mess. Just a bureaucratic mess.

It just doesn't seem like there is, you know--there is a lot of defeatism, I think, within that agency.

It is clearly appalling. It is the northern part of Minnesota, spring time, and yet there is still snow on the ground and ice on the lakes.

Sometimes I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I am hearing these stories. It is just absolutely incredible.

We need to fix this.

SHRM applauds the introduction of H.R. 1189 under the leadership of Chairmen Kline, Roe and Walberg to protect employer-based wellness programs.