By: Congressman John Kline (R-MN) (Diary)  |  August 5th at 01:00 AM  | 

In June of 2009, the unemployment rate surged to 9.5 percent for the first time in almost 26 years. Despite some ups and downs, today the unemployment rate continues to hover near 10 percent and 14.6 million Americans are unemployed and searching for work. I see the evidence of this every time I travel back home to Minnesota: inevitably, the first concern my constituents raise | Read More »

By: Congressman John Kline (R-MN) (Diary)  |  April 28th at 10:13 PM  | 

With a looming nomination to the Supreme Court dominating the headlines, much has been written about the dangers of activist judges – those jurists who do not feel bound by a strict reading of the Constitution, but instead are compelled to reshape the letter of the law to fit their desired outcomes. It turns out activist judges are not the only breed of unelected arbiters | Read More »

By: Congressman John Kline (R-MN) (Diary)  |  October 15th at 09:00 AM  | 

Last month, I joined 170 of my colleagues in voting ‘no’ on legislation that would dramatically expand the tentacles of the federal government into our nation’s classrooms. At the time, most of the attention given to the bill – both positive and negative – focused on its shift to the Direct Loan program, which turns the U.S. Department of Education into the nation’s largest (and | Read More »