Derek Kilmer: “The hatcheries are also important to our commercial and recreational fisheries, which are really big economic drivers in…”

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.

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

My gratitude to Chairwoman Bice and to you, Mr. Chairman, and to Ranking Member Morelle, is that you are loving critics of the institution, and that matters.

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