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Tom Cole: “We have to get the 60 votes. There's only 53 Republicans, so…”

Featuring: Tom Cole, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 4th Congressional District

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Rep. Cole's Weekly Chat | Week of 06.23.25

Published | Video Starts at 05:32

… the last half of July and hopefully we can have an agreement between the two chambers. And this has to be a bipartisan agreement as well because in the Senate We have to get the 60 votes. There's only 53 Republicans, so you can't deal them out of the equation. Hopefully we can come to an agreement in late September to early October to keep not only keep the government funded at current rates, but a deal that allows us to move money around between departments and things like that. (05:32–05:40)

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Asserts that 60 votes are needed in the Senate, and there are only 53 Republicans.

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