Claire McCaskill actually said...

"I think that would mean that there is an assumption that the government can always negotiate for volume discounts unless they are prohibited from doing so by law, like they are in Medicare D."

"What other investigations do you think we can be doing from this Subcommittee, or what legislative fixes could we do that would clarify contracting law as it relates to the ability of the Federal Gove..."

"We are going to try to get an accounting of the retention of rebates by the contractors and an understanding of the policies that are in place at the agencies that contract for food service management..."

"But we could fix that legislatively. We could say, if the flow of dollars are Federal dollars, then any agents that are hired to run programs that are funded through Federal dollars must be subject to..."