Derek Kilmer: “I appreciate your statement in terms of having the Federal Government step up and meet its treaty obligations.”

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

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.

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

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