Tom Cole: “I do not make them in a partisan sense. This has been true whether it is a Republican administrations or Democratic…”

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

We're going to be in a crunch time.

For anyone questioning this legislation, the facts are simple — it extends the government funding deadline to Dec. 4, denying any party the opportunity to manufacture leverage before elections.

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