Tom Cotton: “well, here we are again. Republicans merely want to fund the government for 7 weeks. The House of Representatives passed…”

“well, here we are again. Republicans merely want to fund the government for 7 weeks. The House of Representatives passed a simple bill with no partisan tricks or poison pills. Yet, for the second time this year--the second time in barely 6 months--we again find ourselves on the cusp of a Schumer shutdown. Now, I am not here to remind you that Senator Schumer came to the Senate in 1999 and that, since then, he has supported and voted in favor of a continuing resolution to keep the government open more than 56 times. I am also not here to remind you that, when Senator Schumer was in charge last year, the Democrats had 224 days to bring 11 bipartisan spending bills to this Senate floor, and even though 6 of these bills were passed out of committee unanimously and the other 5 with overwhelming bipartisan support, then-Majority Leader Schumer failed to bring a single one of those bills to the floor--not one. I am also not here to tell you about the impact the Schumer shutdown will have on our national security, on our economy, and on the American people and their families. Instead of doing any of that, I think I will just let the Democrats speak for themselves.”