Derek Kilmer: “Listen, I am all for readiness, but we can't sacrifice the health of our servicemembers and veterans.”

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

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

You know, you mentioned the baseball field, you know, only because Leader Scalise was a Member of leadership was Capitol Police even present that day.

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.