Washington Rep. Kilmer gets challenging job: modernize Congress
Americans have been treated of late to a Congress characterized by arcane procedures and constant paralysis.
Departing Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan had an approval rating in one poll of just 13 percent.
U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-Wash., is heading a rate bipartisan effort to change all that.
The four-term Congressman from the Kitsap and Olympic Peninsulas will chair a new Select Committee for Modernizing Congress, consisting of six House Democrats and an equal lineup of Republicans.
Its charge ranges from developing administrative efficiencies to treatment of House staff to "policies to develop the next generation of leaders."
"His commitment to bipartisanship in the Congress will be vital to this committee's work to modernize this institution," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in tapping Kilmer for the post.
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