Tom Cole: “We must do all that we can to ensure that any American who wants to bravely serve in the United States armed forces...…”

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

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

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

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