[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 125 (Thursday, July 30, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4353-S4354]
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                             Appropriations

  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, next week, our top priority will be funding 
the government until the November election.
  The American people have faced two--two--recordbreaking government 
shutdowns in the past 10 months. We need to ensure that they do not 
face a third. We owe the American people some certainty here. They 
should not have to be hoping and praying that on September 30, the 
government will get funded and that government services will continue.

  I don't think I need to tell anybody in this body that government 
shutdowns serve no one--not Members of either party and, most of all, 
not the

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American people. Shutdowns strain our national security agencies. They 
threaten military, law enforcement, and civilian pay. They endanger 
nutrition benefits, farm programs, and a whole lot of other stuff. They 
are bad for our economy, and they snarl air travel. I could go on.
  Shutdowns hit our country--they hit the American people--hard, and we 
owe it to the American people to ensure that they do not face another 
shutdown this fall. That is why Senate Appropriations Committee Chair 
Collins has been hard at work drafting a clean, bipartisan continuing 
resolution to fund the government through the November elections. I 
appreciate everything she has done to make this happen--engaging with 
Members of both parties and working through the necessary anomalies 
from the Office of Management and Budget--and I intend to bring the CR 
to the floor for a vote next week.
  Again, I would emphasize that the appropriators are working in good 
faith to produce a clean, bipartisan product that is free of poison 
pills, and I hope that will ensure a robust bipartisan vote next week 
so that the American people don't have to spend the next 2 months 
wondering if the Senate is going to do its job, because that is what 
this is--our job. Funding the government is our most basic 
responsibility as Members of Congress, and we owe it to the American 
people to get that job done and done now.
  I urge all of my colleagues to support the clean, bipartisan 
continuing resolution and get our government funded.
  I yield the floor.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant executive clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.