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Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s senior Republican member, delivered the following statement this afternoon on H.Res. 1236, a congressional resolution honoring the coal miners who perished in the Upper Big Branch Mine-South in Raleigh County, West Virginia. Read more »

I rise today to honor the memory of the 29 miners who lost their lives in the Upper Big Branch mine and to express our gratitude to the rescue teams who bravely pursued a tragic recovery mission. The nation watched in collective apprehension last week as mine rescue teams rushed from the coal fields of Appalachia to the small town of Whitesville to help their own. For a week, we all clung to the h... Read more »

We’re here this morning to examine how data can be used to inform educational outcomes. To be sure, educational data systems play an integral role in efforts to create more sophisticated academic performance measures. In other words, data help us understand how our students – and their teachers – are performing. Yet no conversation about educational data systems would be complete without a discuss... Read more »

Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s senior Republican member, today warned new Obama Administration rules for federal construction projects will reduce competition and drive up costs for taxpayers. The federal procurement agencies announced the final rule – slated for publication in the Federal Register tomorrow – implementing President Obama’s Executive Order ca... Read more »

Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement after reports that 25 miners lost their lives at the Upper Big Branch mine in Whitesville, West Virginia, and another four miners remain missing: “My thoughts and prayers are with the families whose loved ones have died or are still missing. The entire Whitesville community ha... Read more »

Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today after the Department of Labor announced 162,000 jobs were created in the month of March and the national unemployment rate remained at 9.7 percent: “Today’s report offers some welcome news for our economy, but the numbers remain far short of what American workers and job... Read more »

President Barack Obama’s decision to install controversial union lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board has come under fire in recent days, and it’s not just because a recess appointment was used to circumvent bipartisan Senate opposition. As an essay in today’s Boston Globe explains, the outcry surrounding Becker’s placement on the NLRB is rooted in concerns about his radical v... Read more »

During the 2008 campaign, President Obama promised the American people health care reform that would lead to “fair and stable premiums.” In fact, then-candidate Obama promised voters his plan would “bring down costs for the entire country.” The Congressional Budget Office has already dispelled this myth for young adults. And a new analysis reported by the Associated Press confirms a disturbing rea... Read more »

Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s Senior Republican, issued the following statement today in response to President Barack Obama’s signing of the so-called health care “fix it” bill, legislation that pairs significant new taxes, Medicare cuts, and other health care modifications with a government takeover of student lending: “This bill proves how difficult it wi... Read more »

Speaker Pelosi believes her government takeover of health care is the “best action” we can take “on behalf of the federal budget,” and President Obama has promised government-run health care will reduce future deficits. However, even the supporters of ObamaCare acknowledge taxpayers will face greater costs than expected. “Provisions of the health-care law that expand benefits for home-bound elderl... Read more »