When the Senate was created, the whole thought of our founders is that the Senators would think long-term, not parochially.
Thomas Coburn
The Public Record
So the American people have to ask us, what are we doing? How are we doing it?
However, there is a lot of work that still needs to be done to realize the full potential of the Act and we plan on using this Committee to fulfill our part of Congress' role in that shared effort.
The other thing I would do is praise the House. They passed the SKILLS Act, which consolidated, I think, 36 of the job training programs into six.
What the Social Security system says is 22 percent of the time their Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) are making a mistake in terms of what they are granting.
And I would like to say for Social Security's defense, none of this is intentional.
And that is one of the reasons that we have seen this tremendous growth in what we think is at least 25 percent improper SSDI.





