U.S. State Attorneys General

I hope we never lose the non-adversarial character of these hearings.

We have to beef up your units so you all can find these folks.

None of us wants to see the bad apples. They ruin it for everyone else.

Thank you all for your testimony and for helping us on this issue.

The Social Security disability trust fund belongs to the workers who paid into it.

Now, in my own district of Minneapolis, we have an occupancy rate of like 98 percent and we could really use the help that a National Housing Trust Fund for low-income rental housing could provide.

I think it is important for you to note that, because as we are having this very civil conversation, the reality that people are going through--not just individual families but whole neighborhoods.

Our country is a country of immigrants, and the success of the immigrants in this country is often the success of immigrants and their families.

This is all about doing the kind of immigration reform that really supports the values that we have in this country.

So you would say that at the very least, for those people who are here undocumented, that at the very least they should not be having to wait longer than those who are here with green cards to access certain services?

There are those kinds of circumstances that perhaps we should be aware of.

So with regard to health care, then, if we do, let us hope, comprehensive immigration reform, then we can take care of the prohibition in the Affordable Care Act that disallows non-citizens from even being able to purchase health insurance.

I think that it would disproportionately affect women and their families.

One of the values we have in this country is family is important.

He says that these common performance measures are absolutely critical. Even the simple difference of committing someone to a job for, and measuring their performance in that job, from 6 months to a year makes all the difference in how we…

Shouldn't it be the people's decision to make? We are not forcing them here are we?

I would say, shouldn't it be the people's decision to make? We are not forcing them here are we?

I have learned in the last two-and-a-half years that when you start to get a lot of the same sort of stories from your constituents, that there is something there.

What we want to do, if we can, on our end, where the problems might be man-made with regard to the disability insurance problem, is flush out those manmade problems.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dr. Manchester, let's make sure we are clear. Eligibility for these benefits.

Let's remind everyone that workers earn their Social Security disability protection.

Perhaps this kind of an ultimate authority to overturn a decision should not rest in one person's hands who may not even have any kind of legal training.

Do you know whether all of this focus to change the culture, to provide the kind of support, education, whether that is working?

I think that this is a situation, another situation, where the actual underlying law and the authority probably needs to be addressed.