Derek Kilmer: “We must take preventative measures, and strong investments through the WRDA reauthorization are a great place to start.”

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

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

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.

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