Derek Kilmer: “Thank you for hosting today's Member Day hearing and for your leadership.”

I am hoping to leave my campsite better than I found it.

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

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…

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