Ben Cardin: “I find it amazing that Jim Cole has not been confirmed. See, I happen to know Jim Cole. I have had experiences of…”

“I find it amazing that Jim Cole has not been confirmed. See, I happen to know Jim Cole. I have had experiences of working with Jim Cole in my official capacity as a Member of Congress. He was selected to be our Special Counsel in an extremely complicated and difficult matter in the Ethics Committee in the House of Representatives. He wasn't selected by me. At the time, Porter Goss, a Republican from Florida, was the chairman of our committee, and he worked with six of us in a very difficult investigation, and he brought the six of us together because of the professional manner in which Jim Cole attacks any of the problems with which he is confronted. He is not a partisan; he is a professional.”