Barack Obama actually said...

I'm encouraging Congress to take it with the utmost seriousness.

I ran because I believed that our success is defined not by stock prices or corporate profits alone, but by whether ordinary people can find...

my expectation and I think the American people's expectation is, is that this gets resolved before the end of this week.

this is a lose-lose-lose situation that can be easily solved if Congress gets back into town and does its job.