James Lankford actually said...

"Congress only acts when it has a deadline."

"We have to avoid the constant fear of a government shutdown."

"What happens if you get to the end, and then you tip over, and you have a government shutdown? He laughed. He said, 'We have a new election the next week, because all of us are out.'"

"Where we are right now in budgeting, I am not sure it is how do you tie the hands of Congress. It is how do you untie the hands of Congress because most everything is on autopilot around here."