All Capitol Hill appropriators want to see is the government reopened so they can get back to work and negotiate on the 12 spending bills for the fiscal year, while the House’s top GOP appropriator remains optimistic they can get legislation moving quickly once the chamber is up and running.

In an interview at his Capitol office on Wednesday, Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) told the Washington Examiner that once the government opens, he thinks appropriators could make “significant progress” on a portion of the dozen necessary bills needed to fund the government before the current continuing resolution ends in late November.