Tom Cole: “We had an agreement with the Senate. It was an agreement…”

“I can certainly assure you there was none. I can tell you, because I talked to a number of senators, that they were unaware of this themselves. So that's no way to legislate again. We had an agreement with the Senate. It was an agreement they agreed to. We agreed to the language. It was compromised language. They didn't get everything we wanted. They wanted. We didn't get everything we wanted, but it was language they agreed to.” (03:34–03:40)

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