Carl Levin

Help us be ready in 2014 and still able to win in 2023.

The real issue is whether government is going to be functioning while we negotiate.

Negotiate, of course, but for heaven's sakes, pay our bills while we negotiate.

Everybody wants us to negotiate. It is obvious we should negotiate. It is obvious that the negotiations have to be bipartisan.

There has been some discussion today, Judge, about a plan by you and Mr. Conn to discredit a whistleblower, Ms. Carver.

Can you do something about cheating? Is that judicial independence?

I find your invocation of judicial independence to be something which, frankly, you ought to be ashamed of as a lawyer.

So you are saying he did not persist with the abuse of time?

I just wanted to see if I heard the answer to the Chairman's last question.

Did that pattern continue that he was putting his initials underneath some judges' time for showing up but really was not there?

Judge, the report that we released today describes a number of instances in which Judge Daugherty's improper practice of assigning Conn cases to himself and taking Conn cases from other judges and assigning them to himself was reported to…

That is no excuse for lying.

Did the ALJs get monetary awards?

That is an extraordinary acknowledgment. Truthful, but it is an extraordinary acknowledgment if you did not change one word of an analysis that you are depending on for--or you are signing, put it that way, you are signing your name to.

He actually had said before that--he referred to those as 'whore doctors.'

Thanks, Val. I agree something needs to be done. I have directed Judge Andrus on several occasions to take care of this. He is either unwilling or unable to handle the situation.

You say--according to Cristaudo, you have often mentioned that Judge Daugherty fails to comply with time and attendance.

I am sorry that I missed the previous questions, but I just want to get one thing clear.

They tried to discredit you because they believed you had spoken to a reporter about what was going on in the office.

Zero. I have no further questions. I am done.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

Well, it is stunning and shocking information.

That is pretty stunning testimony, I have to tell you.

This report is a prime example of a bipartisan congressional oversight effort, as the entire investigation has been.

Senator Coburn has already described what this investigation has uncovered: a case study of conduct that is abusive, fraudulent, longstanding, and intolerable.