Claire McCaskill actually said...

"I mean, frankly, our State's budget--and most States' budgets--is dominated by passthrough money from the Federal Government."

"If a child was removed from their family and 6 months later it was determined that no one was paying attention to where that child was, literally no one, it would be a huge scandal in my State."

"You are catching these children, and then you are releasing them. Everyone goes like this, 'Not my problem.'"

"Every State has a child welfare agency. In Missouri, it is the Missouri Department of Social Services, the Children's Division."