Claire McCaskill actually said...

"If individual Members of Congress were not injecting their priorities within the priorities that the engineers had determined were the best cost-benefit analysis for all of the uses of the rivers and ..."

"I need to know from you--and I need to know before my vote on you--whether or not you will make the commitment that what the Army Corps blew up they will put back to the way it was before they blew it..."

"It seems to me a very backwards way to prioritize the resources of managing our rivers in this country."

"I think this is a delicate problem you face and I put you on the spot here and I apologize."