George Voinovich

In the past, GAO has suggested that the Joint Reform Team provide Congress with 'long-term financing requirements for security clearance reform.'

There are some wonderful things that are happening in committees in the Senate.

I think, General Clapper, or somebody needs to just say to them, 'Look, we have decided that if they have this kind of clearance, it ought to be acceptable in your shop.'

We enjoyed working with you.

He would be a good one, if we can convince him.

I would like to say, again, thank you very, very much for the good work that you have done.

if I had been mayor and had not gotten our appropriations done on time, or Governor, I would have been impeached.

I think that is unconscionable.

We are changing that system, aren't we, Senator Akaka?

You are making a difference in people's lives.

I have been in the business almost 45, and I thought it is time to get off the stage.

one of our concerns, is the training level of the employees.

The system ought to be able to take care of them.

I do not think people realize that they are the intake for just about all the Federal agencies.

The situation has gotten worse because of the fact that we have had a 21-percent increase in the number of people who are asking for disability benefits.

Well, it should have been done a couple years ago.

I hate to ask for your help one more time, but any contact you could make with your new Governors would be very helpful.

In other words, you have 48 percent more cases than you had in, what, 2008?

I do not think the public understands what a disadvantage it puts an agency when we pass continuing resolutions and we do not do our appropriations work.

Well, where are you right now? You are on a continuing resolution. What does that mean to you?

Does their performance have anything to do with their pay?

It is an American tragedy, in my view. And I am sure it is not consistent with the intent of Congress.

Great. Well, listen, we thank you very much. I think that I have learned a lot today, and, again, I appreciate your coming here to Akron.

But the fact of the matter is there are some wonderful things that do happen in the Senate, and one of them is this wonderful relationship that I have had with Senator Akaka.

What kind of peer pressure does your organization exert on your judges in terms of meeting high standards?