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The backlog of new construction homes continues to emerge into the market just in time for the spring shopping season, many home builders are offering incentives to buyers, sweetening the deal just enough to bump sales from the month prior. – Nicole Bachaud	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The fact is – Jackson has a crime problem, the High County Judiciary has a severe backlog in cases and this bill is designed to help both of those areas. – Trey Lamar	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Every day, our emergency room has a backlog of anywhere between 25 and 100 patients waiting for a bed upstairs. So if today, that number was 25, and two weeks ago, it was 100 – yes, that’s better, but there’s still a long line, maybe the patients aren’t piled like sardines in the ER as much when you only have 35 patients waiting compared to 75. But it’s still not great. – Melissa Mattison	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We need to get a handle on what cases should be heard first, second and third. We can't pretend, with a six-year backlog in most jurisdictions, that we can handle all of the cases equally. – Judge Bruce Einhorn	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
By May 2022, there was a backlog of 61,888 principal Afghan SIV applicants in process with an additional 325,000 unopened emails in the SIV application email inbox. – The OIG report	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
DOJ has prioritized its law enforcement functions over the immigration courts. The result is bad management, under-budgeting, and a gigantic and growing case backlog. – Mimi Tsankov	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The last thing you want to do right now is have an error on a return, if there's an error and it gets rejected, that goes to manual process and that just piles onto the backlog already there. – Larry Gray	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The immigration courts are in crisis and the time for small measures is over. The US immigration court backlog can only be fixed by removing the immigration courts from the U.S. Department of Justice and creating an independent immigration court, dOJ has prioritized its law enforcement functions over the immigration courts. The result is bad management, under-budgeting, and a gigantic and growing case backlog. – Mimi Tsankov	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The early backlog will always keep our cumulative disbursements behind other states that rolled out the funds under existing, seasoned programs. – David Young	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Funding to help cover this massive backlog was unfortunately left out of the Great American Outdoors Act, which came over from the Republican Senate, this law provided funding for similar deferred maintenance needs at other units of the national park system. – Another Pelosi spokesperson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It shows a general weakness that needs to be addressed because this is not the last time this issue is going to be front and center, they're talking about the backlog not being cleared until sometime, maybe at the end of the first quarter, the beginning of the second quarter of next year. – Jonathan Daniels	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The money is very much needed for a backlog of projects across the country, these projects stay on the books until we have enough money and the needs keep piling on as consumers buy more goods and add stress on the system. – Elaine Nessle	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I am glad the Administration is finally acting on this issue and now it’s time to approve the Major Disaster Declaration I asked for more than a week ago. The backlog in our ports has caused ships to idle off our coastline for weeks, which may have contributed to the oil spill that devastated our community. I urge the President to approve this request and applaud these efforts to get these ships moving quickly and out of our coastal waters. – Michelle Steel	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This report continues to highlight the ongoing difficulties that homebuilders are facing as they attempt to work through their current construction backlog, due to a shortage of labor and elevated material costs and outright shortages. – Mark Palim	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Widespread anecdotal reports point to builders delaying or turning down orders to allow shortages to ease and to catch up to a growing construction backlog. – Mark Palim	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Here I am, my personal example, I fell out of the status, like so many other DACA recipients fall out of status, we're really tired of these empty promises and we want to really urge President Biden and Congress to act, not just to fix this DACA backlog but to have this permanent solution. – Ju Hong	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If anything, unwinding of the backlog initiated following congestion in Yantian terminal could take months, as the onset of the peak season will mean demand will only further increase. – Parash Jain	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There’s still a gap between orders and shipments as producers ramp up capacity and adjust to increasing demand, the increase in the orders backlog is especially bad in core capital goods, suggesting accelerating capital spending. – Will Compernolle	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
There was going to be a backlog in the silver bullion supply chain that rendered Silver Eagles more scarce either way. – Everett Millman	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Virginia's backlog of untested rape kits has been completely eliminated and it's never coming back. – Mark Herring	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Lack of efficiency in approving projects led to a backlog of around $5 billion in projects between 2015 and 2017. – Carlos Saturnino	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
White House staffers get to have oversight, white House staffers have oversight over White House security clearances. For example, White House staffers have gotten involved in the outsourcing of White House security clearances, White House staffers have gotten involved in the backlog. That isn't exclusively an executive branch function. White House staffers have every right to exercise White House staffers constitutional role. – The President	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There weren't any, other than a backlog that exists of close to a million clearances across government, this isn't new. This was happening under the Obama administration, the Clinton administration. There are literally close to a million people in the federal government who are in the pipeline to get their permanent clearance and are on temporary status. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Immigration courts, which have no current funding and are already dealing with an 800,000-case backlog, have canceled more than 42,000 hearings, forcing people who have waited years for justice to wait even longer. – Bob Carlson	Found on Reuters 5 years ago

The backlog of new construction homes continues to emerge into the market just in time for the spring shopping season, many home builders are offering incentives to buyers, sweetening the deal just enough to bump sales from the month prior.

– Nicole Bachaud

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The fact is – Jackson has a crime problem, the High County Judiciary has a severe backlog in cases and this bill is designed to help both of those areas.

– Trey Lamar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every day, our emergency room has a backlog of anywhere between 25 and 100 patients waiting for a bed upstairs. So if today, that number was 25, and two weeks ago, it was 100 – yes, that’s better, but there’s still a long line, maybe the patients aren’t piled like sardines in the ER as much when you only have 35 patients waiting compared to 75. But it’s still not great.

– Melissa Mattison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need to get a handle on what cases should be heard first, second and third. We can't pretend, with a six-year backlog in most jurisdictions, that we can handle all of the cases equally.

– Judge Bruce Einhorn

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

By May 2022, there was a backlog of 61,888 principal Afghan SIV applicants in process with an additional 325,000 unopened emails in the SIV application email inbox.

– The OIG report

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

DOJ has prioritized its law enforcement functions over the immigration courts. The result is bad management, under-budgeting, and a gigantic and growing case backlog.

– Mimi Tsankov

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The last thing you want to do right now is have an error on a return, if there's an error and it gets rejected, that goes to manual process and that just piles onto the backlog already there.

– Larry Gray

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The immigration courts are in crisis and the time for small measures is over. The US immigration court backlog can only be fixed by removing the immigration courts from the U.S. Department of Justice and creating an independent immigration court, dOJ has prioritized its law enforcement functions over the immigration courts. The result is bad management, under-budgeting, and a gigantic and growing case backlog.

– Mimi Tsankov

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The early backlog will always keep our cumulative disbursements behind other states that rolled out the funds under existing, seasoned programs.

– David Young

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Funding to help cover this massive backlog was unfortunately left out of the Great American Outdoors Act, which came over from the Republican Senate, this law provided funding for similar deferred maintenance needs at other units of the national park system.

– Another Pelosi spokesperson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It shows a general weakness that needs to be addressed because this is not the last time this issue is going to be front and center, they're talking about the backlog not being cleared until sometime, maybe at the end of the first quarter, the beginning of the second quarter of next year.

– Jonathan Daniels

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The money is very much needed for a backlog of projects across the country, these projects stay on the books until we have enough money and the needs keep piling on as consumers buy more goods and add stress on the system.

– Elaine Nessle

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I am glad the Administration is finally acting on this issue and now it’s time to approve the Major Disaster Declaration I asked for more than a week ago. The backlog in our ports has caused ships to idle off our coastline for weeks, which may have contributed to the oil spill that devastated our community. I urge the President to approve this request and applaud these efforts to get these ships moving quickly and out of our coastal waters.

– Michelle Steel

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This report continues to highlight the ongoing difficulties that homebuilders are facing as they attempt to work through their current construction backlog, due to a shortage of labor and elevated material costs and outright shortages.

– Mark Palim

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Widespread anecdotal reports point to builders delaying or turning down orders to allow shortages to ease and to catch up to a growing construction backlog.

– Mark Palim

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Here I am, my personal example, I fell out of the status, like so many other DACA recipients fall out of status, we're really tired of these empty promises and we want to really urge President Biden and Congress to act, not just to fix this DACA backlog but to have this permanent solution.

– Ju Hong

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If anything, unwinding of the backlog initiated following congestion in Yantian terminal could take months, as the onset of the peak season will mean demand will only further increase.

– Parash Jain

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There’s still a gap between orders and shipments as producers ramp up capacity and adjust to increasing demand, the increase in the orders backlog is especially bad in core capital goods, suggesting accelerating capital spending.

– Will Compernolle

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

There was going to be a backlog in the silver bullion supply chain that rendered Silver Eagles more scarce either way.

– Everett Millman

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Virginia's backlog of untested rape kits has been completely eliminated and it's never coming back.

– Mark Herring

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Lack of efficiency in approving projects led to a backlog of around $5 billion in projects between 2015 and 2017.

– Carlos Saturnino

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

White House staffers get to have oversight, white House staffers have oversight over White House security clearances. For example, White House staffers have gotten involved in the outsourcing of White House security clearances, White House staffers have gotten involved in the backlog. That isn't exclusively an executive branch function. White House staffers have every right to exercise White House staffers constitutional role.

– The President

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There weren't any, other than a backlog that exists of close to a million clearances across government, this isn't new. This was happening under the Obama administration, the Clinton administration. There are literally close to a million people in the federal government who are in the pipeline to get their permanent clearance and are on temporary status.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Immigration courts, which have no current funding and are already dealing with an 800,000-case backlog, have canceled more than 42,000 hearings, forcing people who have waited years for justice to wait even longer.

– Bob Carlson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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