Which read underneath that means the Federal Government is going to pay for it?
Claire McCaskill
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Claire McCaskill is an American politician and attorney who served as the United States Senator from Missouri from 2007 to 2019. She was the first woman elected to the Senate from Missouri. A member of the Democratic Party, McCaskill focused on issues such as healthcare, military support, and government accountability during her tenure in the Senate. She played a significant role in various legislative efforts and was known for her outspoken views on military contracting and defense spending.
So now, we are trying to put the cow back in the barn in a way that protects legitimate businesses that have this equipment that they want to sell and have a right to make a profit.
So, if someone does not have a computer and they are saying that they got a call from you and you had a doctor's name, you had their named, and you said that you were Med-Care and they thought you meant Medicare because your name sounds…
The record should reflect that Mr. Letko has availed himself of the privileges afforded under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to not give testimony that might incriminate him.
We both want to figure out ways that the government behaves better with taxpayer dollars.
Thank you for the work that you have done and others have done along with my colleagues on the Senate Armed Services Committee, some of whom are here today, on our effort at getting at--after sexual assault in the military.
I'm here to get to the bottom of whether or not we should have a system that has been deployed without full capability after we spent $4 billion.
I'm all for that, but I still want it to work and do everything that the budget justification said it would do.
Maybe we need to stop here and not go further with this, because maybe we're not going to get it where it needs to be in a cost-effective way.
Frankly, that intelligence piece that it's missing right now would also save lives.
Well, as I look at the evidence that is available, you have mass destruction and violence and slaughter of innocents, and in neither case do we know motive.
And the irony is we are so quick to call Boston 'terror.' Why aren't we calling the man with the high-capacity assault weapon and the high-capacity magazine, why aren't we calling him a 'terrorist'?
It is absolutely unconscionable. I do not know how you have time to do your job because it is a fine line between oversight and making you inefficient.
Because if it's safe enough for the President of the United States, it's safe enough for the flying public.
I just feel really strongly that this is a great example of a rule that needs to go away.
It is inexcusable that they are not here, and I hate to blame the Inspector General for this.
It would be a little bit like if I was running a store and all of a sudden I realize that half my shelves were empty.
Senator McCaskill, who is pushing for this change, she points out that pilots are using iPads in the cockpit.
I am very aware of who you contract with, and I am on the Armed Services Committee and have spent years on contracting and R&D.





