Tom Cole actually said...

"I commend you for doing it. I certainly will take you up on your offer--I literally would love to see this."

"I really want to commend the Administration on this. We have had successive administrations... that did not sit down and bring this to a settlement."

"If there is anything that we can do legislatively to help you in terms of facilitating that process, please let us know or come forward with recommendations because it really is very important, as you..."

"I would really like your comments. One of the things that really frustrated me at multiple administrations over the process of Cobell was this act of, investigation of the records, computations."