03/01/2016
https://www.congress.gov...
"Yet, the agency has been unable to hire sufficient numbers of approved ALJs to tackle the rising backlog of cases--a backlog which topped 1 million last year and, may I say, in my own State of Oklahom..."
"This is about the number of qualified people coming in the process."
"We cannot hire enough qualified ALJs to be able to actually hit the backlog numbers that we need."
"I wish in some way this was an unprecedented backlog."