Derek Kilmer: “I don't have any additional speakers. If the chairman is prepared to close, I yield back the balance of my time.”

First, it can help us promote bipartisanship and civility, which I believe is desperately needed in our polarized politics.

I strongly believe that this is a key ideal we should be striving for in how we craft rules packages.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Congress has never awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to any group of Vietnam veterans. Today, we can change that by passing this legislation. I ask my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to vote…

I think we make a terrible mistake--and I am through--when Members get elected and there is a Democratic bus and there is a Republican bus right at beginning.