Derek Kilmer: “I was proud to introduce the Rural Hospital Technical Assistance Program Act (H.R. 4713) with my colleague from Texas…”

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.

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.