Tom Cole: “I have additional speakers on the way. They have not yet arrived, so I am going to reserve the balance of my time.”

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

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

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

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.