"He calls me Mom. I call him Naughty Boy."

Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) on Wednesday told the New York Times that she and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) are friends and that she calls him “Naughty Boy.”

“Believe it or not, Paul Ryan is a good friend,” Lowey told Times columnist Gail Collins in a conversation about GOP trainings on how to speak to women. “He calls me Mom. I call him Naughty Boy.”