Tom Cole: “Simply to make a couple of quick points to some of my friends' concerns. First of all, nobody has had 2 weeks to act.…”

“Simply to make a couple of quick points to some of my friends' concerns. First of all, nobody has had 2 weeks to act. This incident occurred less than 2 weeks ago, and we were in recess last week. So let's focus on the here and now. I may be mistaken about this, but I don't think we have kept the Ethics Committee from meeting about this. Quite the opposite, we wish they had. The chairman did say he would put in a request for an emergency meeting. The reality is, the majority moved ahead, I think, before that could happen. That process, I think, would have been the appropriate one to follow or an appropriate one to follow in this case. So, I just simply posit those things for the record. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Gaetz).”