Being a federal judge apparently isn’t the career path it used to be. On that, the Senate Judiciary Committee found bipartisan agreement at a hearing Tuesday on Capitol Hill, where judges spoke about the thankless grind of overwhelming caseloads.

Senator Christopher Coons (D-Del.), who is moving forward on a quixotic bill to add 91 federal judges, said understaffing in the federal judiciary influences the employment decisions of potential judges as well as retirement of sitting judges.