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.

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?

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

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

I am flabbergasted at what we have heard.

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?

Do you think this form is appropriate for evaluating children?

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?

You set up the system that allowed this to occur.

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

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

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

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

And did you happen to encounter this patient in 2005?

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

Yes, but it was against policy, right?

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?

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

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.'

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?

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

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

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

So you are asserting that his status is totally unchanged from 2005.