Tom Cole: “I think things have gotten measurably better during your tenure.”

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

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.

I hold the Democrats in the Senate most responsible, but I don’t excuse the Republicans for letting them do it.

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