Claire McCaskill actually said...

"The point I am trying to make here is that I think it is confusing to the consuming public where this loss falls and where the costs are absorbed."

"What has happened is these folks have burrowed in at the agencies they work, and they never go anywhere."

"I think there is also value in having an SES talent pool that is devoted to a particular----"

"I can think of no one in the State of Missouri--and I mean that literally--no one in the State of Missouri that is more deserving of this appointment to the Federal bench than my friend, Ronnie White."