Tom Cole: “I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I am prepared to close for our side, so I…”

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

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

The only reason we’re doing it now is, first, the Senate Democrats, I think, have misused the filibuster, and honestly, the Republicans have let them misuse the filibuster.

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.