Derek Kilmer: “The House Administration Committee's Modernization Subcommittee, where I serve as the ranking member alongside…”

Our role in this exercise is to ensure that the institution is capable of carrying out its constitutional obligations no matter the circumstances.

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.

Today we aren't focusing on the past. We are reviewing two bills that bring the Congressional Research Service and, by extension, this institution further into the future.

I think about some of these bits of legislation sort of through her perspective, right.