Thanks for being here and thanks for what you do. This is hard work to make good decisions on this stuff.

I think it can. If you have auto workers, we hit this economy, and they are 50 years of age, and they have been working with arthritis in their knees and back and hands and elbows, and all of a sudden they are laid off, you are going to…

The Congressional Budget Office has been clear that the disability programs are teetering on bankruptcy.

So I understand this, because I am going to be on this for the next 4 years, you are saying, given previous case law and the Bellmon Review, that you are prohibited from actively managing quality parameters of ALJs. Is that what your…

So you are keeping track.

The Social Security Trustees have concluded that the disability insurance program may go bankrupt in 2015.

late evidence ought to be considered in a thoughtful, intelligent way and not because it is just immediate to the hearing.

I think to go back, Mr. Chairman, one of the things that has happened is we have seen a large percentage of people, given the severe dip in the economy, that were at that age group that were operating with significant disabilities now…

But you are much better. You are a judge--the point being that is key medical evidence that is recognized worldwide as a standard with which physicians make judgments all the time.

I appreciate your dedication to do that.

Not all of this is the Administration's problems because a lot of the problems we find are from earmarks that were written improperly.