Tom Cole actually said...

"I think it is an important subject, and I think you are to be commended for bringing it up."

"I am going to give all of you a rare privilege. I am going to let you--I had the good fortune to sit where my friend, the chair, sits now"

"If we are talking about wage theft the way that the other members on the panel are defining it, which is any FLSA violation or perhaps any FLSA and any state wage law violation, then I would agree tha..."

"I want us to be able to find areas that we agree."