Derek Kilmer: “Thank you, Chairman, for inviting me to sit in.”

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

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.

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