Derek Kilmer: “All of them have legacy infrastructure dating back to the 19th and 20th centuries.”

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…

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 strongly believe that this is a key ideal we should be striving for in how we craft rules packages.