Tom Cole actually said...

"We are either going to have a continuing resolution or we are going to have a negotiated bipartisan agreement."

"Some of us up here have been concerned for a long time about the lack of a new Authorization for Use of Force."

"I think it is a constitutional issue as well. And I think it means a lot when people of your stature tell us that it matters to the men and women that we have put in harm's way to do difficult things ..."

"Until we actually get the numbers where we can appropriate, things don't happen."