ms. colvin. thank you for joining us. and first, i just wanted to exhort you to work hard in terms of improving and expanding ssa's communication with the general public. i do, as many of us do, i've done literally hundreds of roundtables and calls with senior groups, and various kinds of town halls, and i hear so many of the same myths about social security, about disability, about -- that, you know, it's not always going to be there, and all the things that people say. i urge you to do what you can to help answer those myths. we talked about that. you agree with that. but let me talk about a couple more serious things. a couple other more administrative things, if i could. my office got a copy of a memo from an administrative law judge in the office of disability adjudication review in new york. i ask unanimous consent that be entered into the record. >> without objection, it's so ordered. >> and from the chief administrative law judge that mandates the quota. >> so ordered. >> it contains fairly mundane details, but it

ms. colvin's years of experience, ms. colvin is well versed with the challenges involved with running the social security administration. one of those challenges is working within a tight budget and fiscal constraints. the social security has felt the same fiscal squeeze that every federal agency has in recent years. and social security has worked hard to maintain critical services. that's required making some tough decisions, including reducing field office hours and consolidating some offices to address budget and staffing challenges. ms. colvin has been actively working on ways that social security can effectively manage its program integrity work load. as acting commissioner of social security, ms. colvin has made a strong push to make social security information more user friendly and accessible to a broader swath of americans. she's made social security work more efficiently with other federal partners. and she has devoted significant time and significant resources to addressing the needs of the many disabled america