Reps. Derek Kilmer and William R. Timmons IV are under no illusion about the challenges to making Congress a more modern and efficient institution. But as the leaders of the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, the two are walking the walk: pursuing a bipartisan approach and setting an example for how to work together for the public interest.

“Congress has been described as an 18th century institution using 20th century technology to solve 21st century problems,” Kilmer likes to say. But he and Timmons and their colleagues on the panel are making measurable progress in a way that the rest of the legislative branch could learn from.

Show Notes:

• Civility in Congress has turned into a joke. This panel is taking it seriously
• ‘Fix Congress’ panel enters final year with ‘dry topics,’ vows not to rest
• The webinar that started it all (If you need to see how we looked that day)
• Modernization panel OKs latest recommendations, sprinkles Congress with its ‘secret sauce’
• Modernization Committee tracks its own progress as clock keeps ticking
• Rep. Derek Kilmer was an intern in the 1990s. Here’s what he learned on his last day
• From ‘purple spatula’ to ‘aspiring statesman’ with Rep. William Timmons