Tom Cole: “I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment…”

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.

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

We're going to be in a crunch time.

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