Muchneeded reforms for this program that last year supported almost 11 million americans with 137 billion of american taxpayer money. I have closed with one remark. If you work somewhere in the federal government today, i would hope if youre seeing fraud, if youre seeing manipulation, if youre seeing things that are not right, that you will follow the lead of these four courageous women in bringing it to the attention of senator levins subcommittee, permanent subcommittee on investigations or my office. With that, senator carper, i thank you. Thank you so much. Im going to go out of order to ask senator levin who chairs the subcommittee under which this investigation has taken place and ask him just to make a statement. I will make a short statement after that. Then well turn to our witnesses. Senator levin . Thank you very much, senator carper and first let me commend senator coburn for his leadership and his and his staffs hard work in uncovering the abuses that are the subject of to
Host any thoughts . Guest i say this is easily resolved. I think the one thing to be careful of is the difference between sort of partisan decisions and ones that come from different judicial philosophies or ideologies, when you think partisan, you think im going to vote as any republican or democrat would do. I believe that there are a lot of cases at the Supreme Court and we can point to numerous examples that do not follow that traditional breakdown between party lines. And i think a good sample would be coming this term about recess appointments. Here is an issue that will affect whoever the sitting president has come at a sitting president is not currently a democrat. But of course in a future election and maybe the republicans that win an election, therefore the decision that they announce it in the court will be a rule about the perspective power to make these recess appointments regardless of the party of the presidency. What you will see in that decision is the core grappling
And aware of who was around him and the things that he said in the presence of certain people. There was no retaliation. We were asked if we have spoken to anyone or had been contacted by anyone but other than that there wasnt anything. Ms. Hicks . No, and not for me personally. After the story came out i didnt stick around too much longer because eric conn did start to do things so crazy like have someone call my phone so he could stock some person. I didnt stay too much longer after that. How do you know that he had someone do that . Because he had actually spoken to Administrative Law judge andrus and he had given my phone number to an employee there and she had left several messages on my phone to let me know when the employee was going to be off work so that eric could send someone to follow her. So there is no doubt he felt intimidated. Very much so. I didnt want to be an bald in it. It was bad enough that she left messages on my phone but he actually asked me to drive to her hom
You could just see the massive amount of numbers. After this investigation started, management was still pulling. Management was still pulling these cases out of the request states. At one point before, once they help them meet their monthly go, these decisions. They were waiting for them to come in the mail. They would bank fees for their own numerical purpose and hold them before sending them out the next month. There would be 50 cases all set favorable, on the record. Himould allow them to put where this is with the judge for writing. They had been written two weeks ago. All favorable sitting there for the next month. These are the individuals. That was a great overview. Thank you. People work inny the Social Security office in huntington . At one time i think we had about 60. At that office, maybe in the law office, other people had to know something was going on. Absolutely. Before of you have actually and areup shown courage here today. It sounds like you have been through a very
Less than a week after the “He Gets Us” ads during the Super Bowl set off another round of debate about how to market Christianity, the head of the National Religious Broadcasters said Donald Trump was invited to address the NRB this week because like Jesus he gets them.