Patty Murray: “I know the President's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget does not completely reflect the implementation of the recently enacted…”

The pocket rescission represented the theft from the American people, plain and simple.

These are funds Congress has delivered on a bipartisan basis and should be helping people—not cut off by a president more focused on building a ballroom than investing in families.

We should not have to remind you that using government funding to create or air political ads like the ones that have been running over the last few days is illegal and a shockingly corrupt misuse of taxpayer dollars.

This is theft from the American people, plain and simple.