Derek Kilmer: “I also want to thank you for making coastal and climate resilience one of your key infrastructure priorities.”

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…

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

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

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.