Claire McCaskill

I want to give you an opportunity, in fairness...

The contractor that was hired had really never had a contract with EPA; is that not correct?

So, would that be a mistake?

There had been a number of high-profile media reports beginning in November 2009 concerning the safety of Bannister.

The question is, if the regional administrators are not going to have any power, why do we have them?

But they found it in your documentation system. They found it by a simple database search. Why could you not have found it by a simple database search?

I would assume, though, that you would acknowledge that a letter from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources criticizing the agency's limited investigation of trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination would have been a serious issue.

I do not think the Republican Party could have picked a better person to be the Ranking Member of this particular Subcommittee, and I welcome you heartily.

I have taken up 5 minutes. I am going to turn it over to Senator Portman and I will come back for more questioning.

Do you need the Inspector General to train your people on how to do a database search in your database? That is what it sounds like.

But that is what happened in this case; is it not? Did not the contractor write the Statement of Work?

I am sick of hearing lectures about border security and people not being willing to put the resources behind it.

The North Atlantic Council has agreed to expand the NATO ANA Trust Fund to include funding for sustainment costs.

I want to thank, commander, your decision to come to St. Louis. We will welcome the marines with open arms.

But if someone rapes a woman and the evidence is there, and that person doesn't end up in prison, then we have failed.

I think one of the hardest decisions he has is how he's going to replace you.

What would be an amazing moment would be for the Army and the Marine Corps to sit down, decide whose system is further along...

I would love to see--and I will be following up with Secretary Gates and with Admiral Mullen in terms of seeing how many places are there that we could do something like this.

I guarantee that it's more under-reported in the military than it is even on a university campus or in the civilian population at large.

I think it's time that we be very, very honest with the American people that we're building the Afghan military for the nation.

The political upheaval in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Yemen, and elsewhere in CENTCOM's area of responsibility (AOR) is of great concern.

We do not have the personnel.

This could be a $3 billion moment, and we're looking for $3 billion moments right now.

I think we need to begin to talk about the responsibility for paying for this military down the line.

I know that our military is the best in the world at combat readiness, but we are really bad at audit readiness.