Angie Craig: “It is an interesting dialog, Mr. President, because it confirms some of the things that I have been talking about and…”

“It is an interesting dialog, Mr. President, because it confirms some of the things that I have been talking about and that have concerned a lot of Members of this Congress as to the rhetoric of the White House and what to believe over the course of the last good many weeks, when the President has seemed to be a constantly changing and moving target on the issue of the budget, to agree some weeks ago to a 7-year, CBO-targeted budget, now not to want to present it or not to appear to be interested in presenting it. The dialog that the anchor at CNN last night went through with Brooks Jackson was interesting in the sense that it said the President said this, but in fact this is the case, the President said that, but in fact something else is the case. I think it goes along to show that the shifting sands at the White House are extremely difficult for this Congress to work with at this moment to try to resolve these kinds of issues. I thought it would be important that that become a part of the record because simply they have not, in my opinion, kept their word. So it is important tonight for the Congress to intervene, as we are now doing. I use the word ``intervene'' to pull, if you will, these Federal employees off the hostage roster and put them back to work doing what they are responsible for doing and bringing them back into the real world because they have been in limbo, and that has created great frustration. And it should not be allowed to happen.”