Tom Cole: “Our Senate colleagues are not in a position right now where…”

“But we usually could figure out how to get a compromise that keeps things moving, and she was very helpful in getting that done. We'd had another government shut down earlier, so again, I look forward to negotiating with her. But Our Senate colleagues are not in a position right now where they can sit down and negotiate. They're too consumed with partisan warfare between the two sides. So again, we'll let them sort that out. But we will be ready to go. We will have our product passed out of committee.” (10:51–10:56)

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