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 so...
Right. And so you are thinking there are 2,500 or so that are going through the process.
Today we are going to look at several issues surrounding administrative law judges (ALJs), their independence, and the importance of due pro...
And I would comment only in the legal aspects of it. It has not been done before. It will be challenged because it has not been done before.
Because you have the funding that is necessary to hire the ALJs.
But is it your expectation at this point that 30 percent of the folks--or 30 percent of the individuals will say, 'I do not want to do a vid...
Thank you, Mr. Kennedy. Thank you to all of our witnesses for their testimony today.
I wish in some way this was an unprecedented backlog.
We are talking about, I think, a significant exposure for a class action suit once it is all said and done.
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 ...
This is about the number of qualified people coming in the process.