Claire McCaskill: “How can you do performance measures--I do not care how many contractors you hire. How can you do performance measures if…”

There is an over-classification problem, and I was surprised Secretary Gates didn't mention it.

I think that, fundamentally, voters do understand that we have very, very low unemployment. They see it in their families, that everybody has jobs, everybody can get jobs, their jobs are paying slightly better.

He's focused on himself?

This is really, really bad. What they’re saying is, if you criticize the president of the United States, as an elected member of Congress, we will silence you.