Derek Kilmer actually said...

"I also want to express my gratitude to Chairwoman Bice and to Chairman Steil for continuing the traditions that were established by the Select Committee on Modernization."

"The idea of actually sitting around a roundtable and actually having a conversation with each other and with our witnesses, rather than 5-minute speechifying, I think is actually really refreshing."

"A lot of the discussion in the Speaker's race around getting back to regular order presumes that we can have functional committees."

"Our committee over the course of the last two Congresses passed 202 bipartisan recommendations."