Derek Kilmer: “I will also just thank you for referencing the great leader, Billy Frank, Jr.”

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

I strongly believe that this is a key ideal we should be striving for in how we craft rules packages.

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.