The following op-ed was published online by Education Week on September 10, 2009. These last few weeks, America’s classrooms have come to life. Schoolchildren from coast to coast have completed an annual rite of passage: the first day of school. For many students, this year’s first day was unusual. The rituals of meeting new classmates and teachers and reminiscing about summer vacations were overs... 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 »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today expressed new doubts about pending legislation to eliminate the private sector’s role in student lending, arguing that the bill’s massive new entitlement spending initiatives may cost taxpayers far more than expected. Kline’s comments come after the Obama Administration’s Office of Management and Budg... Read more »
Six months to the day after enactment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Rep. John Kline (R-MN) – the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee – highlighted America’s continued job losses and plummeting public opinion about the legislation as proof that the nearly trillion dollar federal spending spree has failed to achieve its objectives. “Democrats in Washington... Read more »
The so-called Employee Free Choice Act was a bad idea in the spring, when it was re-introduced in Congress, and it is still a bad idea now. That’s what the editors of The Daily News in Newburyport, Mass., said recently about the act that’s been sitting in the Senate for months. The “card check” provisions in the act alone make it worthy of rejection, explains the paper's editorial: “The act is an ... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee, today expressed alarm at a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office that shows tens of billions of dollars in hidden costs lurking in the Democrats’ pending legislation to orchestrate a complete government takeover of student loan programs. “We’ve known all along that eliminating the private sector from... Read more »
Congressman John Kline (R-MN) today criticized congressional Democrats’ refusal to increase funding for special education programs, arguing that Congress has ignored its obligation to fully fund its share of expenses under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) for far too long. Kline, the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, offered an amendment to the a... Read more »
