John McCain actually said...

"How do I, Mr. Fanning, go tell the taxpayers of America in my State that the Air Force just wasted $1 billion on a program that obviously was a miserable failure?"

"you cannot continue these kinds of incredible, total loss of the taxpayers' dollars without there being an understandable backlash on the part of the taxpayers of America, which I believe will harm ou..."

"Why can you not? Why can we not penalize companies for failure to live up to the obligations of their contracts?"

"Now, you are sitting here before this committee and you can tell us there will be no further cost overruns borne by the Federal Government?"