Claire McCaskill

I will probably circle back once I get everybody's answer because I think we need to try to get our arms around this in terms of what costs are going to be.

I can assure you there will be some manual workarounds required, but we will not do a large-scale, army of auditors, fully manual approach.

I think that Secretary Panetta's directive for 2014 is one of those good news/bad news things.

Senator Manchin had more contractor-related questions that we will submit.

I can go find you a bunch--I can go out to State auditors offices and find you a team of government-trained auditors that you could get a lot less expensively than $500 an hour.

They better. That is part of their job.

Maybe I need to talk to Secretary Panetta and say we need a deadline for data standardization.

According to the DOD IG, GFEBS does not have effective internal controls and, as a result, does not contain accurate and complete general ledger information as required by applicable law.

I have been worried about the accuracy of distribution of our money to the payroll of the Afghanistan National Army (ANA).

I think it is harder sometimes to hold that mirror up.

I think it is very important that we do not--as we cut the size of government and spend less money in government, we have to make sure that we maintain a robust oversight function in these agencies.

For the State Department, the State Department continues to say that it does not need the structural or organizational changes envisioned by this legislation.

It seems to me that a criminal indictment of a contractor should be an event that requires some folks in that agency to take a hard look.

How these positions can go vacant for this period of time is beyond me.

I did have an amendment to pull all the AIF funds out of Afghanistan and have them to into the United States Highway Trust Fund.

I want to followup on a previous statement you made.

I continue to wait to find out what this new $400 million that has been requested is supposed to be building in Afghanistan over the next 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 years.

That seems like a long time.

Think of the money that we lost because we had nobody minding the store in contracting.

I would like to see those kinds of contracts go away.

Sometimes this place has the attention span of a kindergarten class.

Well, as you know, we had a Tamimi problem in the LOGCAP contract where we have kickbacks with KBR, and that is one of those large duration wartime contracts that is kind of the poster child for contracting gone badly.

Yikes. Three-hundred million dollars for--that is one expensive generator in an emergency.

I guess my biggest problem with this is that I know and understand that our military is the best in the world, because there is nothing--there is no mission they cannot accomplish if we set our minds to it and put the power of the…

I am hoping that we can get you to have somebody that is at the top of the organization of suspension and debarment.