Claire McCaskill actually said...

"It looks like to me that we need to put up a white flag on the ASPI, and say, 'This is not a good use of taxpayer dollars.'"

"Our recurring maintenance is done at our ALCs, and we bring all that aircraft back for that depot-level maintenance."

"Admiral Burke, like Senator Ayotte, who represents the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard--I wanted to go back to your comments about making maintenance a bigger priority, and taking care of what we have."

"You've acknowledged $5 billion at the end of combat, an additional $5 billion to reconstitute the force."