Thomas Coburn
The Public Record
Did you perform a symptom validity test on any of these patients like an MMPI?
Does it strike you as strange that a child 8 years of age would have poor ability to deal with work stresses?
I would ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the list of RFC forms and note that they all show 'Poor' on 'Demonstrated reliability.'
I would like to thank my Chairman, Tom Carper, and the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), Senators Levin and McCain, for their support and their hard work on this investigation.
You were not aware that a medical assessment of ability to do work-related activities would be used in evaluating somebody's disability?
Was it ever noticed in the Social Security office, the disparity of those two sets of recommendations, one by a paid attorney and one paid by the Social Security office, and that they said opposite things?
In May 2011, some of the details about the arrangement with Mr. Conn and Judge Daugherty became public in an article, which you before related to. What was the reaction inside the Conn law office at that time?





