Derek Kilmer: “I cannot reconcile what you said with those facts and I can, therefore, only conclude that you are in denial.”

First, it can help us promote bipartisanship and civility, which I believe is desperately needed in our polarized politics.

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

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

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.