Claire McCaskill actually said...

"Why are they exempt?"

"We especially at this time, need to remember the special relationship we have with the Japanese people."

"To what extent have the Navy's four public shipyards planned for or responded to any increased ship maintenance resulting from OCO?"

"To what extent is the Army assessing which of the many pieces of nonstandard equipment that were purchased to meet urgent warfighters' needs should be added to the prepositioned stock sets?"