Claire McCaskill actually said...

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

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

"We don't know how many people crashed because of this cover-up. We do know that many died, including Ms. Melton..."