Because you have the funding that is necessary to hire the ALJs.

And I would comment only in the legal aspects of it. It has not been done before. It will be challenged because it has not been done before.

Today we are going to look at several issues surrounding administrative law judges (ALJs), their independence, and the importance of due process as provided by the Administrative Procedures Act (APA).

This is about the number of qualified people coming in the process.

We cannot hire enough qualified ALJs to be able to actually hit the backlog numbers that we need.

30 percent of the total group or 30 percent of this non-disability----

How many do you have access to now? If that is the spring of 2017, do you have access to some in the spring of 2016?

So if I am picking this up still correctly, we are still talking about trying to get from OPM more people in the process, more qualified people in the process.

The sheer numbers, we are dealing with 1.1 million now in the backlog.

At the end of the day, I do not want us to end up with a longer backlog because we tried a novel theory that may or may not have worked.

the Social Security Administration is in the process of moving tens of thousands of pending cases from ALJs to non-APA attorney examiners, who are regular employees of the agency and lack the requisite decisional independence.

We had a hearing not long ago on the Federal hiring process, period, and USAJOBS and all of the great joy that it really is in getting through the process.

please do not hear from us we are interested in speed and not quality.

So is the assumption that individuals then would say, 'I do not want to do the video conference,' and at that point they are going to have to travel?

We do not want to have that again because every one of these cases is $300,000 to the Federal taxpayer.

The West Virginia cases that were just exposed were $600 million in fraud.

Do you have enough in the pool from what OPM is sending you?

Because, by the way, in the Federal Government, it is hard to find anything temporary.