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

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.

Like you, Mr. President, Steve has been the victim of lawfare conducted by the Biden Administration

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