Derek Kilmer: “We need a Marshall Plan for America's older, industrial cities and towns.”

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

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

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.

First, it can help us promote bipartisanship and civility, which I believe is desperately needed in our polarized politics.