dr. blahouse's dastardly influence. i think we need a clearer picture of what wejts on in the exie -- of what went on in the compiling of those reports. in order to clear the air on this i sent letters earlier today to each of the administration officials who sit on the board to see if they agree with the claim that the reports they all willingly signed included some unwarranted assumptions designed to undermine social security and requesting that they provide me with a full briefing on the issue. of course, the absurdity of my various colleagues' claims goes beyond their implicit condemnation of members of president obama's cabinet because these senior officials were not the only line of defense standing between the report and the alleged conspiracy to take down social security. if these reports included some pernicious assumptions, they did not only slip by the secretaries of treasury, labor, and h.h.s. and the acting social security commissioner, they must also have had to slip the notice of 10 members of the 2015 te