09/21/2016
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"I do share Senator Heitkamp's concern on this that the more that we go outside the structure and the system, the more exposed that we are and the more exposed the taxpayer is to some sort of litigatio..."
"So if I am picking this up still correctly, we are still talking about trying to get from OPM more people in the process, more qualified people in the process."
"The sheer numbers, we are dealing with 1.1 million now in the backlog."
"At the end of the day, I do not want us to end up with a longer backlog because we tried a novel theory that may or may not have worked."