Claire McCaskill

If anybody does not think what you have done is bold, they do not understand SES.

The more we empower the auditors, the more we make sure that you are doing your job, the more likely it is that we are going to be able to clean up messes like this.

I think that Senator Thune and I would agree that you should, for what it's worth.

I understand that your hands are tied in many ways, because this is more complicated than just this issue, because obviously, in case anyone isn't paying attention, a lot of our friends in the European Union are stressed right now and we…

I think one of the reasons that this data has been such a waste of time is because no one has been paying attention to the fact that they are not paying attention to it.

I just wonder if we were even doing the oversight that is necessary to find the fronting.

Maybe we could do away with some of the bureaucracies around this issue and take that savings and put it into a fund that could----

USERRA protections are the protections that were put into the law that prohibit the discrimination against members of the Guard and Reserve in connection with their military service.

I am not sure that it accomplished what we wanted it to accomplish, other than providing full employment for a whole lot of lawyers and accountants.

Perhaps the way we do it is to before we try to do away with it, we try to make it public and see if it could come to some good and make it transparent.

That is a great idea.

It remains to be seen exactly what effect that is going to have in the future, continuing an operational reserve.

Breaking down these barriers is critical and requires innovative and comprehensive responses.

I am happy today to be discussing a subject that I think every American should be concerned about, and that is the employment of our veterans.

It seems like, to me, this might be a good fit for the National Guard...

We are passing laws and then we are not paying attention.

There is something touching veterans in almost every agency of government, all for the right reason, because people wanted to help veterans.

What this fact sheet shows is that the information currently being collected and maintained by the Department of Labor is spotty and frequently inaccurate.

These numbers are a stark reminder that we are not doing enough to help our veterans and that we must take new and urgent steps to improve our national efforts.

Well, I think we have to figure out a way to try to remove as much as this as possible from the Federal Government and put it in the State and local offices where frankly, they are going to be the ones that are going to have the best ears…

No one is doing the due diligence to make that effort really meaningful in any way.

He said that the Web sites that in their experience, as they looked at the various listings on the Web sites, they were taken aback at how many people had put information on the Web site that were not veterans.

We are seeing something very different, that the men and women who have served so honorably in Iraq and Afghanistan are facing unprecedented challenges in finding employment.

Well, yes. I mean, the data is like a joke. It is like a bad joke.

I think this National Guard situation is a crisis.