Claire McCaskill actually said...

"How can you do performance measures--I do not care how many contractors you hire. How can you do performance measures if you cannot get the commands to even use the database you have?"

"either we are going to get the right contracting oversight in place, or we are going to have to reduce the contracting, one or the other, because the current situation I think is untenable."

"According to the reports to Congress that our staff has reviewed, the Department has not fully transferred any of those activities in Colombia."

"It is not a contract if you do not have a scope of work."