Claire McCaskill actually said...

"I have not heard enough acknowledgement from anybody from GSA that mistakes were made and that it should not have been done this way."

"And you were told?"

"I do not think the Republican Party could have picked a better person to be the Ranking Member of this particular Subcommittee, and I welcome you heartily."

"I perfectly well understand that the problems we are going to talk about today in contracting apply to every Federal agency."