Tom Cole: “It’s cheaper to try and cure it, or at least manage it and delay it, than it is to deal with it.”

We're going to be in a crunch time.

The Senate has wasted the entire year and a half. They have not passed a single bill.

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

For anyone questioning this legislation, the facts are simple — it extends the government funding deadline to Dec. 4, denying any party the opportunity to manufacture leverage before elections.