Claire McCaskill actually said...

"No. I am telling you the original estimate in theater by the contingency operation was $700 million."

"You don't go into acquisition in the government because you want to be a star. You go into it because you are driven by a desire for public service."

"What we need to be thinking about are meaningful metrics that track the value the government gets for the money they spend."

"It has frustrated me for years that the public and the media seem to have no interest whatsoever in the number of contractor personnel that are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan instead of our military pe..."