Claire McCaskill actually said...

"If we now acknowledge at the end of the hearing that mistakes were made, then I have yet to see where anyone was held accountable for those mistakes."

"This is exactly the kind of thing that allows the public to get deep-rooted cynicism about the way we spend money."

"The contractor that was hired had really never had a contract with EPA; is that not correct?"

"This Subcommittee has spent a lot of time on contracting--on contracting officer representatives (CORs), and this was another weird thing about this contract..."