she had been working, joanne rooney, in the pentagon for quite a while and then left a year ago to go be a president of a woman's college, so she has been away from the pentagon for a year, and now she is back in the pentagon as nominee to be under secretary of the navy. the navy's pretty important in virginia. and she said the difference in the pentagon and with the navy folks she is working on from when she left a year ago to today is just completely stark because in the years she was gone, the furloughs hit and now the shutdown has hit and she is walking around the halls and looking at how people are responding, feeling like they are not supported when they are doing this important mission, and she had one question. why are we doing this to people who are working for the united states navy who protect us every day who we count on to protect us every day? why? we know as the senator from florida said the house pushed this shutdown through unwillingness to have a budget conference. we passed a budget in march. we wanted to sit down and find a budget compromise with a very different h