Tom Cole: “I thank my friend for yielding and for his excellent work in this area. Yes, we would look forward to that. Frankly, we…”

“I thank my friend for yielding and for his excellent work in this area. Yes, we would look forward to that. Frankly, we have pretty regular exchanges with a lot of the committees under our jurisdiction where they have done the hard work of authorizing an investigation. That can be used to guide appropriations. So I look forward to working with my friend to make sure we can eliminate the type of abuses that he is talking about and redirect funds where they need to go for the care of patients. I thank my friend for his work and his kind words, and I certainly pledge that I will work with him going forward, as I have in the past.”