Tom Cole: “I respectfully request level funding for the 118th Congress to carry out our institutional responsibilities on behalf of…”

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.

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.