Tom Coburn

But what I am asking is they do not monitor the individual agencies to see if they are in compliance.

It is accountability. And all I want to know is what are the results of holding some--did we hold whoever made that decision accountable?

That would be one of the things you would want to check.

I will spend some time tomorrow then going through what this is. But it is solving our problem in such a way that it doesn't kick the can down the road, which is what we are getting ready to do. What I would say in conclusion is by…

Nobody wants to harm people who are disabled and unable to work.

We need to do more. But we cannot do more unless we do entitlement reform.

I don't want you to waste my money.

Somehow the President has to make it crystal clear that he is willing to negotiate.

I was a doctor and would not allow the drug companies to bring in anything for my employees because I did not want to be seen as being complicit or bought.

Do you think you failed as chief judge in managing Judge Daugherty?

You had to have had some suspicion that things were not going in an ethical manner in relationship to Mr. Conn and Judge Daugherty because you suspected Conn of forum shopping?

Can you tell this Committee that you honestly believe that you had no inclination that there was anything nefarious going on with Judge Daugherty and Eric Conn?

Did you have any reason to believe that she was?

That is a matter of fact now before this Committee.

You would agree we have already gotten testimony that Eric Conn was forum shopping just by the testimony that has been here today.

You did nothing. You did not stop it. It continued. You abdicated your responsibility as chief judge.

Yes, but it was against policy, right?

I am flabbergasted at what we have heard.

I will just summarize your testimony and get you to say yes or no, if you would.

Did you ask him any questions about handling money in your interview with him?

The information in the background section came from Mr. Conn.

I mean, you signed every one of those forms, and every one of them had 'poor reliability.'

He was a former patient. Yes, sir.

An on-the-record determination can only be made positively.

You set up the system that allowed this to occur.