So would you be comfortable then with a short term funding bill that funds the government

say until January or perhaps April?

Is that something that you're considering?

Well, I've talked to my colleagues about this in the race for the speakers race.

I mentioned that I would favor, as for purposes of discussion, to build consensus around,

if there indeed has to be a stop gap funding measure, that we would do that until January

15th.

And the reason for that is it gets us beyond the end of the year push, and oftentimes

the Senate tries to jam the house and force an omnibus spending bill.

We're not doing that here anymore.

We're having single subject bills in our separate appropriations bills, and so pushing

that into January, I think would assist us in that endeavor.

There may be some conditions put on that, perhaps, that 1% spending cut across the board

instead of becoming effective in April.

Maybe we make that January 15th to incentivize the Senate to do their work.

I don't want to get too deep in the weeds on the details of it, because people sort of

get lost in all of that.

But I'll tell you that we're working in earnest to get it done.

I think all of our colleagues are at the table right now, even the toughest fiscal conservatives

like myself, people know that we've got to get this job done, and they're ready to do

it.

As soon as I took the gavel, our work began, and we passed the resolution, as you noted,

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