Tom Cole: “However, I fully recognize that the use of this right comes with great responsibility.”

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

We're going to be in a crunch time.

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.

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