Derek Kilmer: “One of the biggest lessons I have learned over the past 3.5 years is that if we want things to work differently, we have…”

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.

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…