Derek Kilmer: “I claim the time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Washington is recognized for 5 minutes.”

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.

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

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