Claire McCaskill actually said...

"the more quickly you adapt to some of these strategies, the less painful the next decade is going to be for DOD and for our military."

"I thought it took a lot of courage for Secretary Gates to go out as far as he did on the second engine."

"We, in Congress, hope that that is not the case."

"Frankly, obviously, it's been a problem, writ large, because we can't even audit."