WASHINGTON – Fort Worth Rep. Kay Granger, part of a congressional group that met with President Barack Obama to discuss Afghanistan, said she was growing impatient as the president weighs whether to send more troops or find an alternative.

"When you're faced with a deteriorating situation, and troops on the ground, it's time to make a decision," Granger said, adding, "We've suffered enormous losses and polls are showing that there's not the support that there's been in the past. I don't know whether that's the holdup. I don't know what the holdup is."

Obama invited 31 key lawmakers to the White House to confer privately: the House and Senate leaders, plus the top members of each party on committees that control spending for the war effort. He has also held a series of strategy sessions with senior civilian and military advisers.

Granger is the senior Republican on the subcommittee that controls billions in spending for overseas development and diplomacy, and also sits on the panel that controls defense spending.

Another Texan, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso, was also at the meeting but could not be reached for comment.

Like other Republicans at Tuesday's summit, Granger said she was appreciative that Obama took time to solicit their views but was also somewhat exasperated that he hasn't embraced the recommendation he received more than a month ago from his top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

"It is important that he considers everything. However, he handpicked General McChrystal," Granger said, adding that the McChrystal report, much of which has been leaked, was also approved by his superior, Gen. David Petraeus. "Now is not the time to question seasoned military commanders."

The administration has not permitted McChrystal to testify to Congress about his recommendations, a point of contention for Republicans.

"The administration, the president, has said we're not going to leave. We're not abandoning Afghanistan," Granger said. "If we're going to be there, then for goodness sakes we have to give the resources necessary to protect our troops and also to reach clear goals."

She called Tuesday's meeting "very intense. Everyone that was in that room was privy to that [McChrystal] report and the assessment." And she said Obama faces an "enormous, very difficult decision."