Claire McCaskill actually said...

This is a time of great discontent in our country about our government, and I think we are naive if we do not acknowledge and talk about it.

I am honored today to be here to introduce Beth Phillips as a nominee for the Western District Court of Missouri.

I think that is the kind of bipartisanship we all long for in this body and certainly that we hope to get on the Federal judiciary.

Nothing was more frustrating than having a judge presiding over a trial that it was fairly clear they had never been in a trial.