Randy Krehbiel

Tulsa World Reporter

Mr. Clean: As chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, 4th District Congressman Tom Cole was responsible for not only bringing a continuing resolution to the floor on Friday but getting it passed.

And that he did.

“At the beginning of this process, I was asked to produce a clean bill for a limited period of time by my colleagues on the other side,” Cole said, referring to House Democrats. “That’s what they asked to do, so … then, all of a sudden, we have extraneous demands for things unrelated to the day-to-day operation of the government.”

The demands weren’t exactly a surprise, but the CR was a little too clean for Democrats who wanted it to include an extension of Affordable Care Act insurance premium subsidies.

So when the House GOP’s b

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