A Representative from Oklahoma urged colleagues on the House floor to approve a clean continuing resolution (CR) to keep the federal government funded and said unrelated policy changes should be debated separately. "You got exactly what you asked for. You asked for a clean CR. You got a clean CR," the Representative said.

The remarks matter because the Representative framed added policy riders as a trigger for a political confrontation that could produce a government shutdown, and he said ongoing negotiations on three appropriations bills are the appropriate forum for other policy issues. "You asked for negotiations on the three bills. Those negotiations are underway, and that's what this committee should be focused on," he said, referring to the Appropriations Committee's work.

On the House floor, the Representative criticized lawmakers who attach unrelated items to stopgap funding measures. He said colleagues on the other side originally asked for "a clean bill, no partisan riders, no tricks" for a limited period and that those conditions were met in the CR under consideration. He warned that inserting extraneous demands into a CR was "political theater" that risks shutting down the government and likened the tactic to past efforts that failed. "If you wanna shut the government down, you have every right to do so," he said, adding, "But rest assured, you're doing exactly what Republicans did in 02/2013, and it did not work for them."

The Representative also said he had discussed the timing with a Senate colleague: "I was told by my distinguished friend in the United States Senate, Senator Murray, 'oh, no. We don't want to go all the way to January like the Trump administration does. We just want to go into November.' I said, 'great. I actually agree with you.'" He framed the CR as a temporary measure to buy time so the House and Senate can finish regular appropriations work: "All we're doing today, mister speaker, is buying the time that we all need to finish a process that we're all trying to restore."

The speech included an explicit appeal to vote for the measure under consideration. "With that, I urge you yes on the motion in front of us, and I yield back the balance of my time," the Representative said. The transcript of this floor statement does not record a subsequent roll-call vote or the motion's formal mover and seconder.

Negotiations on the three appropriations bills were described as ongoing; the Representative urged colleagues to keep those talks separate from the CR process and not to attach unrelated policy riders.

The remarks came during a floor debate over the continuing resolution; no formal action (vote) on the CR is recorded in this excerpt.