Derek Kilmer: “I think we make a terrible mistake--and I am through--when Members get elected and there is a Democratic bus and there…”

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

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

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…

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.