Embedded Player As President Obama and his top advisers consider their options in Afghanistan, the president's Democratic allies on Capitol Hill are in an awkward position. They say Obama needs time for that review. At the same time, the Senate is approving funding for the war without knowing troop levels, the strategy or the end game. And lawmakers' spending dilemmas are not limited to foreign policy. Last week they missed a deadline to pass a dozen annual spending bills. But they did manage to pass one — the one that funds Congress. Guest host Jacki Lyden talks with NPR congressional correspondent David Welna about what's ahead in Congress.