Derek Kilmer: “Americans deserve to know the trains they are taking to work or to visit loved ones are safe.”

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.

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

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