James Lankford actually said...

"We had a hearing not long ago on the Federal hiring process, period, and USAJOBS and all of the great joy that it really is in getting through the process."

"please do not hear from us we are interested in speed and not quality."

"the Social Security Administration is in the process of moving tens of thousands of pending cases from ALJs to non-APA attorney examiners, who are regular employees of the agency and lack the requisit..."

"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."