2015年养老金40：John Kline

作为众议院教育委员会主席，劳动力，其健康，就业，劳动和养老金小组委员会，明尼苏达州约翰克莱恩68，68，是普博斯在代表院里的养老金的人。Last year he and Representative George Miller, a California Democrat Politico once described as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s “strong right arm,” teamed up to pass the Kline-Miller Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014. That bipartisan effort to shore up failing union pension funds has proved controversial among organized labor: Some appreciate the need to save troubled funds, while others are resisting the inevitable benefit cuts from restructurings. “Business and labor leaders came together to support the legislation because they understood it was the only responsible option,” says Kline. “Those trying to undermine the law risk inflicting greater pain on millions of Americans.” Opponents of the bill are pushing a Senate proposal introduced in June by Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders that would repeal the benefit suspension provision of Kline-Miller. In September, Kline, who was first elected to Congress in 2002, announced he would retire at the end of 2016. Some labor leaders hope Kline will tackle legislation that would offer a way for multiemployer plans to offer more flexible, or hybrid, pension solutions before he leaves. Kline, however, has said his legislative priority is the passage of a rewrite of President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind program, which mandated school testing and expired in 2007. Kline’s bill passed the GOP-controlled House in early December, leaving time for him to return to the pension wars. Kline says he has been talking with stakeholders and colleagues on the House Ways and Means Committee. The proposal, he says, “continues to be one of my leading priorities, and I am hopeful we can finish our work next year.“ Kline will lack one old ally: Miller, 70, retired from Congress last January.