And it is a lifetime appointment.

Does their performance have anything to do with their pay?

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

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

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.

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

If you are an attorney out there and you get a chance to get a lifetime appointment if you become an administrative law judge for Social Security, that is quite an incentive.

I think it is an area ripe for some oversight hearings and legislation.

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

But if the DDS did a lot better job, there would be less claims that needed lawyers.

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