Derek Kilmer: “It matters that they have access to the Federal data that they need to do their jobs.”

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 hoping to leave my campsite better than I found it.

Over most of the past decade, each time I boarded a plane to head to D.C., I would write a note to my kids, Sophie and Aven, to explain to them why I was leaving and what I would be working on while I was gone. My kids were three and six…

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