Claire McCaskill actually said...

"I am stunned. It is a disaster. We were throwing money at contractors. And we absolutely have no product to show for it."

"the notion that you can't use an underlying successful system for keeping track of gravesites because it doesn't include the kind of scheduling needs you have is one of those that kind of go, well, th..."

"I particularly would like to know section by section in the Cemetery when you are assured that you have identified all the mistakes that exist."

"Well, let us be honest here. I mean, really, what has happened here is employees at the Cemetery finally had enough and they went to Salon.com and Salon did an expose on what was going on at Arlington..."