So you are keeping track.

Thanks for being here and thanks for what you do. This is hard work to make good decisions on this stuff.

In the era of trillion-dollar deficits that both Republicans and Democrats can claim responsibility for, $108 million to create a list of jobs in our economy, does anybody think that might be a little high besides me?

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.

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 with significant disabilities now…

Were any of you shocked that you could not use that anymore? Did it cross your mind that, 'Here is a tool that may help me decide a case accurately that I no longer am going to be able to utilize'?

A timely response is important to me.

In other words, somebody needs to explain to this Subcommittee why in the world we would take something that has been used for years, that is recognized scientifically to be very valid and a very good tool for large areas in health care…

The Congressional Budget Office has been clear that the disability programs are teetering on bankruptcy.

OK, but what I am asking is why haven't you developed valid data at the judge level?

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

I come to the floor today to talk about the bill that is pending, and I must say: Here we go again. And let me say that what we are doing today, under the auspices of helping returning veterans get jobs--and there is nothing wrong with…

I think it can. If you have auto workers, we hit this economy, and they are 50 years of age, and they have been working with arthritis in their knees and back and hands and elbows, and all of a sudden they are laid off, you are going to…

But your testimony still is you do not have the capability to find the outliers through your management system.

The Social Security Trustees have concluded that the disability insurance program may go bankrupt in 2015.

late evidence ought to be considered in a thoughtful, intelligent way and not because it is just immediate to the hearing.

Is this really expert testimony when all we are doing is reading the statement by an expert and answering one question?

In a Congress that is often divided on partisan issues, this is a unique Committee.

Three cases wrongly decided is $1 million, on average.

I can testify as a practicing physician up until January of this year that that is a valuable tool used throughout the medical community.

But you are much better. You are a judge--the point being that is key medical evidence that is recognized worldwide as a standard with which physicians make judgments all the time.

I ask for the yeas and nays and yield back whatever time I had. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.

I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: In the nature of a substitute) Strike all after the…

first of all, I wish to say I appreciate the leadership for working to ensure a vote on this package. This package was slowed down not because anybody is truly opposed to what we are trying to do, but the package was slowed down because of…

it is intriguing to me. We heard the Senator from Delaware absolutely assure us that if we defy this, the House is not going to do the right thing. My conversation with Chairman Camp was different from that. I do not know what the timing…