It has been a real pleasure for me to get to know Senator Begich and his family and to see Alaska through his eyes.
Without the Polar Sea or other icebreakers like the Polar Star, how is the Coast Guard going to be able to conduct these...
I don't think there's anyone--I know there's not anyone I have met in my tenure that has been more of a champion in talk...
But we also have a choice this year as to whether we put in the budget request--whether we adopt the budget requested by...
Yes, Senator, that is a Federal requirement.
I think that may be part of the difference between the agencies.
Send us recommendations.
We thank you very much, and if you can, also give us your oral testimony in no more than 7 minutes.
I think the issue is whether or not--we will wait to hear from them, but whether or not there is an overstatement.
And you recommended that the Social Security Administration investigate all of those 1,500 cases?
Do you recommend that the Social Security Administration investigate these 20 cases?
I come from a State with a 14-percent unemployment rate, and I have known of very few people who are not desperately loo...
And if not, tell us if there needs to be a change in the law.
Shouldn't we allow you to forward those to the Social Security Administration?
You made the allegation. There may be a flat-wrong conclusion.
I assume that is true around the country that you are trying to get these backlogs down.
I think the reason we find this study--and you mentioned it--is because we have failed to do our job.
Does that sound about right?
