Derek Kilmer: “This bipartisan bill revises the Good Neighbor Authority program to modify the treatment of revenue from timber sale…”

This retreat would provide a rare opportunity to engage with one another outside of the pressures of Washington, D.C.

Our role in this exercise is to ensure that the institution is capable of carrying out its constitutional obligations no matter the circumstances.

My hope is, regardless of which party holds the gavels, that that Subcommittee continues, because the work of institutional improvement needs to continue.

Over most of the past decade, each time I boarded a plane to head to D.C., I would write a note to my kids, Sophie and Aven, to explain to them why I was leaving and what I would be working on while I was gone. My kids were three and six…