Tom Cole
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"Thomas Jeffery "Tom" Cole" is the United States House of Representatives/U.S. Representative for , serving since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party (United States)/Republican Party. He is a Deputy Party whips of the United States House of Representatives/Majority Whip. The chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) from 2006 to 2008, he was, during his tenure, the fourth-ranking Republican Party (United States)/Republican leader in the House. As of 2012, Cole – a member of the Chickasaw Nation – is one of only two registered Native Americans in the United States/Native Americans in Congress (the other being fellow Oklahoman Markwayne Mullin).

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Important for the committee and for the House that its actions be viewed as nonpartisan and objective by the members of this institution and by the public.

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These are serious numbers. The question is whether this is a trend or a reaction to Katrina and Rita.

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Well, I guess the sexual abuse by Mel Phillips in a sense, he had a fetish for feet. He used to play with my feet and other kids' feet, and that was his thing.

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I don't know why anybody aspires to the job. It is just a problem job, dealing with problems messy by nature, people at wit's end, crisis situations.

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I was told not to go to Madison Square Garden anymore and many of these things are unheard of if you're in wrestling. They blackballed me out of the company.

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Members know this is a very difficult moment -- if we don't hang together we fall apart.

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He's a very powerful and effective force inside the Republican conference, and at this stage, the sympathy and support for him is so strong that he is going to be exceptionally effective if he picks his shots.

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I don't know why anybody aspires to the job.

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I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it.

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