Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today joined colleagues in pressing for a vote on a proposal that would give Members of Congress and the American people at least 72 hours to review legislation before it could receive a vote on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. “The American people are tired of seeing bills cobbled together i... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, is calling for a congressional oversight hearing into allegations that officials with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the White House inappropriately used federal resources to promote a political and legislative agenda. Kline made his request in a... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today strongly criticized legislation that would dramatically expand the federal government by eliminating the private sector-based federal student loan program and spending tens of billions of dollars on a range of new entitlement programs. The legislation, H.R. 3221, was approved by the House in a vote to... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, spoke this afternoon on the floor of the House about pending legislation that would eliminate the private sector-based Federal Family Education Loan program – the lending model chosen by a large majority of colleges and universities. The bill, H.R. 3221, also creates or expands numerous entitlement spending... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement this afternoon in response to reports that compromise proposals are being developed to engineer passage of the Employee Free Choice Act: “The so-called Employee Free Choice Act was a bad bill when it was introduced in March, and it’s still a bad bill today. Proposals that rest... Read more »
A new analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office adds to mounting evidence that pending legislation to overhaul college lending will cost taxpayers billions more than Democrats have acknowledged. At the request of Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the Education and Labor Committee’s top Republican, CBO re-examined the cost of reforms to the Pell Grant program included in H.R. 3221. Its findin... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s Senior Republican, responded this evening to President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress on health care reform. Kline, whose panel is one of three House committees with jurisdiction over health care legislation, issued the following statement: “The President’s outreach to Congress and the American people is welcome... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s Senior Republican Member, today delivers the weekly Republican address on the Democrats’ health care legislation moving through Congress “like a runaway freight train.” In his address, Kline calls on congressional Democrats and President Obama to “press the reset button” and pursue commonsense, bipartisan solutions that will fi... Read more »
The U.S. Department of Labor reported this morning a loss of 216,000 jobs in the month of August, bringing the national unemployment rate to a 26-year high of 9.7 percent. Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s top Republican, issued the following statement: “This morning’s jobs report proves what struggling American families already know – the American economy is f... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s Senior Republican, was joined by House Republican Policy Committee Chairman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) in requesting public release of President Barack Obama’s upcoming national address to elementary and secondary school students. Citing the importance of parental involvement and transparency in education, the lawmakers sent a le... Read more »
