Tom Cole: “Congressman Tom Cole, now has the distinguished honor of chairing this very committee.”

We're going to be in a crunch time.

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

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

It gives the nation and our constituents certainty, certainty that the government will remain open, certainty that our service members will be paid.