Claire McCaskill actually said...

"It is with a sense of urgency that I realize we have to hold on to the ability of independent food producers to get a product to market."

"So what they do is they force a price increase on the local market so that they can take a piece of it?"

"I mean, if, in fact, they were not getting the extra plus-up by going to the big guys, then we really would, pardon the expression, have an apples-to-apples comparison."

"I think all of the companies that are allowing themselves to be manipulated in order to plus-up these contractors should be ashamed of themselves, particularly in the context of Iraq and Afghanistan."