Tom Cole: “I've learned never to dismiss out of hand anything the president says, but it would take a constitutional amendment.”

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

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

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

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