During a conference call with regional media, Rep. Tom Reed expressed relief that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on President Donald Trump was released last week so that the country can move on more unified and informed.

“The evidence clearly shows the president did not collude with Russia,” Reed said. “I think it’s fine for us to move forward.”

The Corning Republican noted that he had wanted Mueller to follow the evidence. Reed called on the American people to ask themselves why the investigation occurred in the first place, with Reed hinting at political motivations for the two-year probe.

“We need to put the culture of division in D.C. aside,” Reed said.

In other news, AARP announced its support for Reed’s bipartisan Mental Health Telemedicine Expansion Act, which was crafted to allow Medicare beneficiaries to access mental health services through telemedicine in their own homes throughout the country. The bill was introduced last month.

“Just as we see a primary care doctor every year, it is important we have a ‘checkup’ on the mind as well,” Reed said. “We care about the mental health needs of people and want to ensure they have better access to the care they need in areas where doctors are scarce through the most updated technology available.”

In a letter of support, AARP legislative policy director David Certner thanked Reed and Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., for introducing the bill.

“Roughly one in five older Americans has a mental disorder, and as the Medicare population grows, the number of people seeking treatment will grow,” Certner said. “This population is inadequately served by our health care system. Your bill improves access to care by making it easier for people who may not live near a mental health professional to get the support they need.”

More than 3.6 million people each year miss or delay care due to lack of transportation to their physician, Reed’s office said in a press release. Telemedicine allows those patients to take off less time from work and spend less time sitting in traffic.

Reed also commented on Trump’s national emergency as it survived since the House of Representatives did not gather enough votes to override his veto against the initially successful vote to deny the state of emergency.

Representatives voted 248-181 to overturn Trump’s veto, shy of 38 required votes to earn a two-thirds majority. By invoking executive power, Trump said he plans on transferring $3.6 billion from military construction to the erection of physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.

To avoid another partial government shutdown, Congress had voted earlier this year to allocate $1.4 billion for techniques on how to keep the border secure, ranging from steel barriers in specific areas to technology that could better track drugs coming into the U.S.

Reed maintained his stance, saying that he wants to legislatively pursue means of removing the authority of the president alone to enact a national emergency.