Derek Kilmer: “We understood that process reforms alone can't force Congress to reach budget deals, but process matters because it…”

I am grateful to my colleague and friend, Congressman Brad Wenstrup, for serving on our first panel today.

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.

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.

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