Derek Kilmer: “I strongly urge you to include new funding and authorities that will allow the Army Corps to assist communities.”

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

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