Tom Coburn actually said...

"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."

"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..."

"So how did our judge in Oklahoma City do 1,500 and 1,600 a year?"