Tom Cole: “I advise my friend I am prepared to close whenever she is. In the interim, I will reserve if she has more speakers.”

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

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

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.

The only reason we’re doing it now is, first, the Senate Democrats, I think, have misused the filibuster, and honestly, the Republicans have let them misuse the filibuster.