Tom Cole: “I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from…”

We're going to be in a crunch time.

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

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

Our conference refuses to let the obstruction and inaction of Senate Democrats trigger another manufactured shutdown at the end of September. That is why we are acting before a funding lapse crisis, not in response to it.