Tom Coburn

You expect us to believe that judicial independence is the reason that Judge Daugherty had a 99.7 percent approval rate? Is that judicial independence or is it fraud?

Do you think this form is appropriate for evaluating children?

Do you think it is likely that 31 people would end up with a form filled out the exact same way?

And did you happen to encounter this patient in 2005?

I am asking--you put the background information in this report, and I am asking the origin of it.

Did you perform a symptom validity test on any of these patients like an MMPI?

All right. That is all the questions I have for you. Good job.

In hindsight, did you make a mistake signing those RFCs?

Was it ever noticed in the Social Security office, the disparity of those two sets of recommendations, one by a paid attorney and one paid by the Social Security office, and that they said opposite things?

Did Mr. Conn ever make any statement to you about why he was destroying all of his documents?

I would ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the list of RFC forms and note that they all show 'Poor' on 'Demonstrated reliability.'

Does it strike you as strange that a child 8 years of age would have poor ability to deal with work stresses?

That 31 out of 31 people sent to you would have exactly the same on 75 different parameters?

You were not aware that a medical assessment of ability to do work-related activities would be used in evaluating somebody's disability?

So how is it that you also found that this claimant with an IQ of 61, two standard deviations below low normal, had no problem managing his money?

Do you think it is appropriate as a medical professional to copy a claimant's subjective allegations word for word and pass it off as your own medical conclusions?

Is this document typical of the medical forms you completed for Mr. Conn's clients.

I think anybody who has a significant mental health problem is going to have poor reliability.

It is true you do work for the Social Security Administration as well.

Yes. So why did you sign them? If you did not do them, you put your signature on them.

So all this occurred after the Inspector General's visit?

You allowed it to run uncontrolled. You had great chances to stop this, and you did not.

All right. Why do you think he wanted to destroy the DB lists?

He is Mr. Social Security.

To my knowledge, was Judge Daugherty ever disciplined for what he did?