Tom Cole: “We have lived the experience here, which I hope is a lesson, regarding the anthrax letters.”

We want to take away the possibility of a shutdown between now and the election.

We're going to be in a crunch time.

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