Derek Kilmer: “I am eager to help. And certainly, as the action plan rolls out, we would love to get a brief from you or NOAA.”

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

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

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.

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…