Derek Kilmer: “I want to underscore the urgency of this and having the EPA with skin in the game. We can't get it done without you.”

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.

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.

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