11/01/2011
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"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."
"The sheer numbers, we are dealing with 1.1 million now in the backlog."
"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..."