Derek Kilmer: “We are not here enough. ... Ideally, we would be actually in D.C. more full days than travel days.”

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

I am hoping to leave my campsite better than I found it.

I am grateful to my colleague and friend, Congressman Brad Wenstrup, for serving on our first panel today.

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…