Tom Cole: “I think forcing Congress to put its fingerprints on these kind of decisions is really something that we need to do.”

It reinforces support for key allies - like Israel and Taiwan - and directly counters threats from Communist China and other regimes that challenge our interests and principles.

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

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

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