So are the forms right or wrong? Are all these forms right? You did not fill them out. You just signed them.

That is a violation of the rules inside Social Security. Is that correct?

I would note for the record, of all the forms that Mr. Conn had prepared, every one of them, every one of the forms said 'Demonstrated reliability: Poor.'

And it is true that you notified Mr. Hall that you were aware that Judge Daugherty was assigning himself cases as well?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you all very much.

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

I said 'physician' because that means you care for the whole person.

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

We are going to have a doctor in the next panel that both made recommendations for Social Security and recommendations for Mr. Conn.

He was a former patient. Yes, sir.

Well, thank you both for being here. I appreciate you coming.

I will help you out there.

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

I will respond to a couple points my colleague from Vermont referred to. If one looks at the votes on everything that has come to the Senate thus far, I think the lowest vote total was 221, which is a majority of the House. A majority of…

He makes some profound observations about where we are and the lack of leadership. Here is a practicing orthopedist who loves his country, who wants us to solve the problems, who wants us to take back control of our government and do what…

to me that would be indicative of the whole mindset of the problem in Washington today.

The Constitution says that you have to give an account for what you spend, and unfortunately the Pentagon cannot.

Our current method of stopgap, crisis governing is no way to run a government or a business let alone a Nation of our size and stature.

the fact that we would not process a nominee that is important and vital to establishing what we need at OMB seems to me like you are shooting at your own feet.

One of the difficulties we have as Members of Congress, especially if you want to do oversight, is getting responsiveness out of the Administration.

It takes a certain amount of courage and patriotism to give up a very well-paying job to come and do service for your country.

To achieve a long-term solution to our fiscal problems we need to do three things.

If you just look at this, nobody in their right mind would create this. But of course Congress is not in its right mind. We would not have a $750 billion deficit if we were in our right mind. Here it is for all the green building programs…

I have spent a lot of time in the last few weeks and listening last night to the Senator from Texas make a big point that Members of Congress in his opinion were not listening to the American people. I have a lot of experience listening…

Postal employees today are subsidizing the rest of the Federal workforce.