Tom Cole: “Will you commit to the subcommittee particularly not to reduce the Conscience Division that we have in the Office of…”

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

I hold the Democrats in the Senate most responsible, but I don’t excuse the Republicans for letting them do it.

We will engage where it matters, we will invest where it counts, and we will demand accountability for every dollar spent.

Our conference refuses to let the obstruction and inaction of Senate Democrats trigger another manufactured shutdown at the end of September. That is why we are acting before a funding lapse crisis, not in response to it.