Jackie Speier

Administrative action should be taken.

I want you to go back with your staff and determine whether or not, while there is still something pending, whether or not you can take administrative action.

It is very important for us to not jeopardize the disciplinary actions that are ongoing within the Social Security Administration.

The American people expect and deserve action. I am concerned that justice has been long delayed in this case.

During the course of the committee's oversight of Social Security Administration we have learned that there is room to do disability insurance better.

One of the things that is most disturbing to me is that even with the mountains of evidence against the ALJ Daugherty and Eric Conn, no action has been taken against either of them.

If we want to fix the backlog, we have got to pay for it.

I have a hospital that is teetering on bankruptcy right now, and the RAC experience has exacerbated it.

Part of our resurgence, part of our economic reinvigoration is the fact that companies are bringing manufacturing back to the United States.

The system has to have integrity; and people who are receiving benefits should be eligible to receive benefits.

So let's drill down on that, because a whole group from Social Security came in and met with me on ADHD.

Okay, but no medical training per se, I mean, you are not professionally physicians or health care professionals.

So, Mr. Chairman, I have a question here.

The reality is that the latest enrollment numbers prove that there is a genuine demand amongst the American people for affordable health care.

Now that we have surpassed the goal established two and a half years ago for enrollment, with more than 7 million Americans enrolled in the ACA, Republicans are as determined today as ever to try and rip it apart.

I would like to see the same kind of frankness and willingness to fix the system now that it is in President Obama's Administration.

You have the ability to recommend to the President that he no longer allow the importation of Russian bullets or assault weapons.

I think it is one of the kinds of activities that we should be looking at as well.

I certainly would like and probably the Chair as well documentation to tell us how much was spent on these storefronts and what was recovered as a result.

If we said the 501(c)(4)s should be exclusively for social welfare purposes, we wouldn't be having these hearings.

The law that passed said that if you wanted to be a 501(c)(4), you had to exclusively be associated with a social welfare activity.

So, let's be clear that this general pled guilty to any number of egregious conduct. That a lower-ranking individual would have been kicked out of the military.

And for a sexual predator to gain the rank that he has gained, go through a court-martial process, and be given a slap on the wrist suggests to everyone who has been watching this case that it does not work.

What happens to the 90 percent that don't?

To say that there are 5,000 soldiers who will file complaints for sexual assault or rape a year and only 500 of them go to court-martial, that means that only 10 percent of those that file complaints actually go to court-martial.