Tom Cole actually said...

I believe that both the proxy voting and remote committee procedures have long since outlived their usefulness.

Continuing to utilize proxy voting and remote committee procedures has negative consequences for legislating.

we need some focus here, not on some of these other agendas that, frankly, are stalling out right now.

the outline of the deal here is pretty obvious. The defense number has got to go up. The domestic number has got to come down to some degree...