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The mountains between Congress and modernization

Chairman Derek Kilmer, D-Wash., right, and vice chairman Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga., are seen during a Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress business meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday, March 12, 2019. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call

By Jinitzail Hernández, Kate Ackley and Thomas McKinless

Posted July 12, 2019 at 1:09pm

Time is running out for the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress to find bipartisan consensus on a variety of issues.

Chair Rep. Derek Kilmer, and top Republican Tom Graves, tout the bipartisanship of the committee and highlight some of the toughest issues they have to tackle before the committee’s authorization expires in December.

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