Claire McCaskill

Do you believe that the Navy will be in a position to keep up its end of the bargain in getting DOD to a point where it can be audited in the next 4 years?

Will you commit to reviewing, and changing, if necessary, the metrics used to determine the performance level of SES employees?

If confirmed, will you share with this committee the status of bonuses paid to SES employees in the Navy in fiscal year 2012?

The DOD Office of the Inspector General (DOD OIG) has been critical in efforts to rein in runaway spending and waste, fraud, and abuse at DOD.

You do not need to worry about me being invited. As many of your JAGs will know, I call them.

This is hard. We all have the same goal. But I do want to say, as I close this questioning, that anybody who characterizes me as someone who is protecting the Pentagon, that somehow I am in cahoots with the Pentagon trying to hurt sexual…

There was discipline meted out in my office when I found out that prosecutors in our warrant desk... were getting lobbied by some of the trial prosecutors on their decisions.

The other argument that is being made about leaving this in the hand of just prosecutors, civilian and/or Judge Advocate General (JAG) prosecutors, is that this would increase reporting.

I need to hear from you, General Dempsey, that you are committed to getting to the bottom of this because if we do not fix accountability in this instance, whoever pulled the trigger on that expenditure really needs to be disciplined.

Just when I think we have made real progress on wartime contracting, something happens and I realize that we have still miles to go before we really have a handle on this.

DOD under former Secretary Panetta's leadership, implemented a number of initiatives to try to curb sexual assaults in the military.

The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center recently conducted a study that found pilots of drone aircraft experience mental health problems.

It is more important than ever to ensure that there is a sufficient number of trained acquisition and other management personnel capable of overseeing, not just executing, contracts by DOD to ensure that U.S. taxpayers' dollars are being…

Are you committed to ensuring that the reforms are integrated into planning and training so that they will not be ignored in future contingencies?

Will you commit to identifying whether AT&L has sufficient personnel to address the reforms required in these provisions?

I have already reached out to DOD to ask how officials plan to implement the major components of my wartime contracting reform legislation.

AFRICOM's responsibilities reflect a new and evolving focus on building partner operational and institutional capacity at the country and regional levels and supporting the efforts of other U.S. Government agencies in the area of…

Sexual assault is contrary to Army values, degrades mission readiness, and will be prosecuted.

Congress has been clear that greater analysis and assurances are needed to ensure that the reconstruction projects the United States is undertaking in Afghanistan are not only needed and wanted by the Afghan Government, but sustainable by…

I am concerned about what appears to me to be a lack of civilian planning and a lack of coordination for the transition to our post-2014 involvement in Afghanistan.

He has a resume that qualifies him.

This is a President who was just reelected by the American people.

In 2011, in its final report to Congress, the Commission on Wartime Contracting found that as much as $60 billion, roughly $12 million 'every day for the past 10 years,' was lost to waste or fraud through contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I believe very strongly that this committee needs to be bipartisan.

I am hopeful that we can get our GAO Improvement Act passed.