Tom Cole: “This really wasn't, in my view, originally from OMB, about getting more bang for the buck in research.”

We're going to be in a crunch time.

We want to take away the possibility of a shutdown between now and the election.

The Senate has wasted the entire year and a half. They have not passed a single bill.

The bill before us is a clean, narrowly tailored continuing resolution that keeps the government open and operating. Nothing more. Nothing less.