Tom Cole

The speaker is very insistent that we go all the way.

We’re not putting any DOGE cuts in the CR.

We’re going to write a CR that’s non-objectionable to every quarter as we can make it.

We’re not trying to fool you. I don’t want to give you an excuse to vote no.

We’re not trying to put 40 pills in, trying to hide anything.

That's a no-go, that's a red line that we're not changing our position on and they know that.

Cole argued that Democrats are being unreasonable by withholding support for a deal because of disagreements with Trump’s use of executive powers.

The president has to sign it, so it can’t be something that he decides he doesn’t want to sign.

I don’t think you’re likely to see a Republican House and Republican Senate try to limit a Republican president.

We’re close on the numbers. We’re pretty far apart still on trying to limit presidential powers.

I don’t know. I’d have to go back and check.

That's a no-go, that's a red line that we're not changing our position on.

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

This is our most expensive disease.

To be able to do what we’ve done, a fivefold increase in Alzheimer’s and dementia research is a very special thing.

There's only one signature that matters right now and it's not Joe Biden's anymore.

We have to remember the deal they are trying to enforce is when we had a Democratic president and a Democratic Senate. We don't have those anymore.

That’s not true, he doesn’t know that. I mean, we heard [from Democrats] yesterday.

I advise my friend I am prepared to close whenever she is, and I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman would understand that I am waiting for someone else who was coming, but I reserve the balance of my…

I just remind my friends, for the VA, which we both support, we offered more money than the administration asked for. It is pretty notorious for not doing a very good job of budgeting. That hasn't changed over the years. That is why we…

I would quickly make a point to my very good friend, who knows quite well I hold her in very high regard. On the veterans issue, I just point out that we actually appropriated more to the VA than the administration asked for. We are…

I think you could multiply what these tribes have gone through dozens, if not hundreds of times...

So, that is why the system is broken, in my view, Madam Chair. It is really a court decision that has caused the problem.

I have been a champion on this issue for the past 15 years, since the Supreme Court's 2009 Carcieri v. Salazar decision.

I want to thank the Subcommittee for all its hard work on behalf of Indian Country, and particularly today for holding this hearing on my legislation, H.R. 1208, which would amend the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 and affirm the…