Congress Shortsighted Cuts Hit USPTO Hard

The US Patent and Trademark Office is already behind on US patent filings, and had planned programs to speed up filing and to work on the backlog. Now that is all on the backburner. The US PTO has canceled the Track 1 accelerated patent prosecution, frozen hiring, and canceled opening another office. As President Obama had noted that innovation and growing jobs was greatly needed to continue creating jobs in the weak economy I am left puzzled by Congress' deeps cuts to the US PTO's funding? This is only more disappointing because the US PTO is a government office that actually turns a nice profit and is fee funded not taxpayer funded.