Derek Kilmer: “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.

This retreat would provide a rare opportunity to engage with one another outside of the pressures of Washington, D.C.

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

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.