Team — The Seattle Times just wrote a piece covering Derek's efforts and determination to make Congress work for the people. Have you had a chance to read it?
Derek proudly began his chairmanship of the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress back in 2019 and has remained a staunch leader in bipartisan efforts to fix the broken process and facilitate across-the-aisle collaboration. The "Fix Congress" Committee proved (through over 200 bipartisan recommendations – with numerous already implemented!) that Democrats and Republicans actually CAN work together.
Read an excerpt from The Seattle Times Editorial piece below, then chip in whatever you can to support Derek's efforts to make Congress work for the American people →
The Seattle Times editorial board and Kriley
After visiting Capitol Hill, the Russian-born character actor Boris Marshalov remarked, “Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens. Then everybody disagrees.”
That was more than 75 years ago, during the era when President Harry Truman coined the phrase “do-nothing Congress.” Even so, there was a time when this great deliberative body of ours was productive and its members felt honored to serve. Thankfully, one Washingtonian is working to make that true once more.
In 2019, U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor, began chairmanship of the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, or ModCom, determined to find ways to make Congress work better. Starting with ModCom itself, he insisted the 12-member committee have six Republicans and six Democrats and that all recommendations require a two-thirds vote. In these times, it sounds like self-sabotage, but ModCom has made 202 recommendations in four years, 130 of which have been implemented…
Derek Kilmer is leading the efforts to reform our democracy and break through the partisan gridlock so that Congress works for the people. Chip in today to support his grassroots campaign.
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