Tom Cole: “I think you can get way too caught up in these details. It is people's lives and assets.”

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

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

Like you, Mr. President, Steve has been the victim of lawfare conducted by the Biden Administration