Tom Cole: “I urge you to make this a local decision, and encourage the proper local decision, because what works in one…”

We're going to be in a crunch time.

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

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

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.