Tom Cole: “But I will also remind you that, as one of my colleagues referred, these are treaty obligations. They are not generous…”

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

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

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.