John Kline几乎偶然地致力于他的国会养老金监督发挥作用。After 25 years in the Marine Corps, Kline — a helicopter pilot in Vietnam and Somalia who transported Ronald Reagan in Marine One and carried the “nuclear football” (a briefcase containing the top-secret options and codes) in the early ’80s — was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002 from Minnesota’s Second District. He served on the Armed Services Committee, but when then-chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, current Speaker John Boehner, asked Kline to join him there, “at his insistence I came on.” As the senior Republican on the health, employment, labor and pensions subcommittee, Kline helped frame the Pension Protection Act of 2006. In 2010 he succeeded Boehner as chairman of the full committee. “I’m working on all sorts of education-related issues,” Kline, 67, says, “but pensions don’t want to let go.” The No. 1 pension issue, he contends, is how to address underfunded multiemployer plans. “I would love to get that solved in the lame-duck session,” he says. “I’m pushing as hard as I can.” Kline supports Randy DeFrehn’s (No. 6) “Solutions Not Bailouts” agenda and has been pressing Assistant Labor Secretary Phyllis Borzi (No. 15) to slow her ongoing efforts to apply a fiduciary standard to providers of investment advice. He believes extending the more rigorous standard from advisers to fund salespeople “will make it difficult for smaller investors to get the advice they need.”
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约翰克林
美国代表
明尼苏达州
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2014年养老金40