Derek Kilmer: “The ask is for an addition $87 million to adjust for 15 years of holding it steady on the paycheck.”

These retreats will allow us to identify areas of mutual concern and agreement.

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

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

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