Thank you.

The Supreme Court has said that the Social Security Act calls for the agency to operate 'as an adjudicator, and not as an advocate or adversary.'

I just want to go back to one of the things that--we are concerned about high denials as well as high approvals.

I do have a significant concern about a key recommendation to mandate a government representative at all disability hearings because I fear that it would lead to an adversarial process.

But your testimony still is you do not have the capability to find the outliers through your management system.

Three cases wrongly decided is $1 million, on average.

Well, does it make sense to limit the ability of ALJs?

In the era of trillion-dollar deficits that both Republicans and Democrats can claim responsibility for, $108 million to create a list of jobs in our economy, does anybody think that might be a little high besides me?

In other words, somebody needs to explain to this Subcommittee why in the world we would take something that has been used for years, that is recognized scientifically to be very valid and a very good tool for large areas in health care…

I can testify as a practicing physician up until January of this year that that is a valuable tool used throughout the medical community.

A timely response is important to me.