Claire McCaskill

Our prosperity and our security now depend on a very skilled technical workforce, which is in high demand both in government and industry.

Excessive cuts would create high risk in our ability to sustain readiness.

The U.S.-Brazil bilateral relationship is especially critical to stability in the region and to the fight against the transnational threats that the world faces today.

We must avoid our historical pattern of drawing down too much or too fast and risk losing the leadership, technical skills, and combat experience that cannot be easily reclaimed.

I have become increasingly skeptical about the infrastructure projects that we are spending money on.

Current incentives promote spending CERP funds without sufficient accountability.

The B-2 is an integral part of the nuclear triad and our Nation's sole penetrating dual-capable bomber.

I think that some of the stuff that we've built in Afghanistan, we can go ahead and build the stuff...

I believe with every intellectual capacity I have that this is not going to end up well on these infrastructure projects.

Legislation currently before Congress would remove the reporting and investigation of allegations of sexual trauma from the chain of command and place them within an independent body.

If the NDN is not open or partially open for retrograde operations, how will this affect the retrograding of materials and equipment from Afghanistan?

This really looks like nation-building in every essence of the word, and I think there is more nation-building here than there really is COIN.

The analysis was expected to be complete in spring 2012.

What accounts for the delay in the expected completion of the BCA?

DOD is pivoting to a strategy that focuses on the Asia-Pacific region.

I think there's been an awful lot of talk around the Senate about freezing Federal employees' salaries and cutting the number of Federal employees, but there's been very little real difficult work of trying to hold down the cost of…

I don't think they have the capacity or the resources to operate what we've built for them.

Electronic attack is a powerful capability that has proven its worth on the battlefields of Afghanistan.

It seems to me a very backwards way to prioritize the resources of managing our rivers in this country.

We built an army for them they cannot afford.

I want to take this opportunity to say how thrilled I am to have a Missourian nominated to be the next Chief of the National Guard Bureau.

I certainly do not want to diminish PACOM in any way.

The disparity in terms of the priorities of the Army Corps is like fingernails on a blackboard to most Missouri families

I need a commitment from you today, General, or as soon as you can give it to me, if you are not comfortable giving it today, that it will get rebuilt to 62 feet.

I can assure you that the members of the Missouri delegation that represent our State here, along with the other Senators along the Missouri River...