Claire McCaskill actually said...

"Well, I think we need to have the resources and the expertise at NHTSA to find these defects."

"It is time that we finally get this right so that it doesn't take an enterprising trial lawyer and an engineer..."

"I think that is something that we need to understand, because it is, in fact, because of those confidential settlements that many of these problems do not get the light of air that they should."

"Well, that is incredibly frustrating to me, that you wouldn't have a simple timeline of what happened once you got that knowledge."