Derek Kilmer: “This bipartisan bill would strengthen and modernize the Community Wood Energy and Wood Innovation Grant Program.”

These retreats will allow us to identify areas of mutual concern and agreement.

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.

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

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