Derek Kilmer: “These communities need technical assistance and resources to adapt to the changing climate.”

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

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

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

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.