Derek Kilmer: “Thank you, Madam Chair. My apologies. We had a briefing on the coronavirus with the Vice President, and coming from…”

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

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