Tom Cole: “I want to thank you for the hearing, and your focus on this issue.”

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

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

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

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.