Derek Kilmer: “I was proud to introduce the BUDS Resolution along with Representative Young Kim, who, in an ideal world, would be…”

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…

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

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