There’s an old proverb that fits Derek Kilmer: If you love something, sometimes you have to let it go.
The Washington Democrat led the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress — better known on the Hill as “ModCom” or the “Fix Congress Committee” — where he oversaw the drafting of more than 200 recommendations to improve the legislative branch.
Now Kilmer is closing out his 12-year career in the House, after deciding not to run for reelection this cycle. He may be leaving, but he isn’t going quietly — he attended a House Rules Committee hearing last month to urge changes aimed at quenching “toxic polarization.”
